The first global malaria risk map to be developed in forty years has highlighted the 2.37 billion people at risk from one of the world's deadliest diseases. The findings of the Malaria Atlas Project ...

The most detailed map ever created of malaria risk worldwide is published today by an international team of researchers funded by the Wellcome Trust. The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) will be a powerful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. mycteria / shutterstock Of an estimated 228 million cases of malaria worldwide each year, around 93% are in Africa. This ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $16 million to The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP), which houses the world’s largest malaria database. The MAP, which is based in Perth, Western Australia, uses ...

About 35 percent of the world’s population is at risk of contracting deadly malaria, but many people are at a lower risk than previously thought, raising hope that the disease could be seriously ...

Images offer hope that the disease could be brought under control in most areas. An international team of scientists today published the most detailed global maps of worldwide malaria prevalence ever ...

Using data from nearly 8000 local surveys of malaria parasite infection rates, an international team of researchers has built a global map showing the proportion of the population infected with the ...

The first detailed map of individual malaria parasite behavior across each stage of its complicated life cycle has been created by scientists. Researchers used advanced single-cell technology to ...

New high-resolution maps show the global burden of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, the two parasites that cause the majority of malaria cases worldwide. New research published today in The ...

Malaria parasites transform healthy red blood cells into rigid versions of themselves that clump together, hindering the transportation of oxygen. The infectious disease affects more than 200 million ...