Malaria

One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies is now seeking approval for the world’s very first malaria vaccine. The firm, GlaxoSmithKline (or GSK), says it plans to use the vaccine outside the European Union. Malaria, which is carried by mosquitoes, is a devastating parasitic disease. Every year it kills more than half a million people, […]

By now we’ve all heard of Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week,” a week-long series of television programs dedicated to the sometimes deadly fish. But Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates says we should be paying more attention to “Mosquito Week” — after all, Gates says, mosquitoes kill far more people each year than sharks. There’s no […]