Discover nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases that could also combat mosquitoes and their transmission of malaria.

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates the parasite Plasmodium that carries malaria. This disease kills more than half a million people per year. He gives a sample of his blood to the ...

Female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites between humans ... Marcos Sterkel and Pedro Oliveira discovered that blood-feeding insects, such as fleas, flies, and mosquitoes ...