malaria

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the most dangerous animal on the planet is actually the mosquito. This tiny insect may seem harmless, but it is responsible for taking the lives of up to over...

A new type of bait using beet juice instead of blood lures the mosquitoes that carry malaria, killing them off quickly, scientists announced recently. Malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases kills more than 700,000 people all over the globe every year...

World Health Organization Director Tedros Adhanom Ghedbreyesus stepped out to recommend the world's first malaria vaccine to people after the organization had approved the vaccine. Ghebreyesus called this a "historic moment" after the United Nations health agency's vaccine advisory group...

Highlighting a disturbing trend, data published by the Greek Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) showed that infectious incidences of infectious diseases increased by 20.5 percent in 2017. In total, 5,967 were recorded in 2017 compared to 4,951 incidents in 2016. The data...

There are no risks to public health in Greece and blood banks are sufficiently stocked, Health Minister Andreas Xanthos said after a meeting with health services, responding to reports on lower blood donations and the extra measures taken to...

"There is absolutely no reason to have concerns over the possibility of a malaria outbreak," the secretary general of the Health Ministry Yiannis Baskozos said in an interview with the Athens - Macedonian News Agency on Tuesday. "Spreading unjustified concerns...

So far this year Greece has seen 65 cases of malaria compared to the 85 cases it saw for the entire year of 2015, official reports from The Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) say. This outbreak in malaria...

Greece, declared free of malaria almost 40 years ago, is battling to prevent the mosquito-borne disease from making a comeback as local transmission has resurfaced in the past two years. Outbreaks of locally transmitted malaria since 2011 in the regions...

Severe cuts in health care expenditures has led to the re-emergence of a once-extinct disease – malaria – to economically battered Greece. Malaria, a mosquito-borne infectious disease, is typically associated with tropical nations of Africa and Asia. However, austerity cuts...

West Nile virus is a disease spread by mosquitos. It affects mostly people who have a weakened immune system (such as HIV carriers or people fighting against cancer and other diseases), young children or the elderly as well as...