A 4-year-old girl has died of malaria in Italy, where the disease is thought to have been wiped out. Troubled health officials are looking for answers.

The WHO European Region is marking an important step o­n the road from malaria control to malaria elimination, and then o­n to maintaining malaria-free status, with the launch of The Ashgabat Statement: Preventing the re-establishment of malaria transmission in the WHO European Region. The Statement is being formally presented o­n 4 September in Moscow, Russian Federation.

On July 6th, the Discovery Channel's MOSQUITO reveals the dangers of the world's most deadliest creature to humans. As we've been covering the threats of mosquito-borne diseases for years, we could not pass up this opportunity during  Mosquito Control Awareness Week to bring this extraordinary film to our community's attention.

Tablets made from dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant cured 18 critically ill patients in a Congo clinic. The results suggest a new and inexpensive treatment option for the mosquito-borne disease that affects 212 million people worldwide.

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