Malaria

The partisans of President Nicolás Maduro don’t like scientific findings that show a huge increase in malaria cases, a deadly metric of this country’s disarray.

A 4-year-old who never left the country is dead of an inexplicable case of malaria. Italy’s anti-migrant forces are fanning parents’ resulting fears to target refugees’ kids.

Faced with severe flooding, Louisiana could be in for another disaster: Zika. But experts say it isn’t time to panic yet.

Tim Warrillow will go to the end of the Earth—or at least the jungles of the Congo—to find the perfect ingredient for the best artisanal Gin & Tonic in the world.

Unlike polio and typhoid, there’s no malaria vaccine—but Dr. Stephen Hoffman says he’s got one. Now he’s launched a crowd-funding site to make a ‘SpoRobot’ to deliver the knockout blow.

Thousands in the Caribbean have been infected with an incurable mosquito-borne illness that renders patients feverish and immobile—interminably. Why Americans could be next.

A promising new vaccine cut malaria infections by 46 percent in a recent study. Kent Sepkowitz explains why this is the biggest science news of the week.