Research led by UC Santa Cruz finds that both non-native and native birds play a key role in the transmission of a disease ...

Avian malaria is spreading across Hawaiʻi in a way scientists didn’t fully grasp until now: nearly every forest bird species can help keep the disease alive. Researchers found the parasite at 63 of 64 ...

A mother carries home a mosquito net she collected at a distribution point in Mukwela district, Zambia. The next global health crisis might not be another pandemic caused by a novel respiratory ...

New research shows most Hawaiian forest birds carry avian malaria, fueling widespread transmission and raising extinction ...

Malaria has plagued people for millennia. It is referenced in ancient texts and has even been detected in Egyptian mummies that are more than 5,000 years old. During the twentieth century alone, ...

Unlike many diseases, where only a few species play a major role in spreading infection, the new study found that most bird ...

Malaria-induced innate immune modulation of an atypical cellular population plays a substantial role in driving and maintaining immunity against malaria, a new study from scientists at Stanford ...