Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, ...

Almost everyone has had lice at some point in their lives. Lice are considered parasites because they feed on human blood.

The parasites known to cause babesiosis are shown here infecting red blood cells under the microscope. (Image credit: Smith Collection/Gado / Contributor via Getty Images) Typical symptoms of ...

This starves the parasite, which responds by becoming less likely to kill the already ... to the literature,” but says that she’s unsure how applicable the mouse models are to humans. She’s concerned ...

A parasitic infection transmitted to humans by cats affects billions of people and can alter their behavior. New research ...

Currently, several approaches are used to reduce mosquito numbers and limit malaria transmission. One method involves the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin. When mosquitoes feed on blood ...

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ages -- including the older ones that are most likely to transmit malaria ...

Nitisinone, a drug for genetic disorders, could help control malaria by making human blood toxic to mosquitoes. Anopheles mosquito survival and pharmacokinetic modeling show the mosquitocidal activity ...

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