Ivermectin does not work against COVID-19. However, it is almost a miracle drug when it comes to treating parasites. Doctors want to know if they can use ivermectin to prevent malaria. Here's how it's going.

Around 6,000 years ago, in the Sahel region of Africa, a lone female mosquito buzzed through the lush, green savannah. She couldn’t know it, but the planet itself was about to change in ways that would see her descendants evolve to live...

Mosquitos might not be everyone’s favorite bug, but there’s a way we might at least be able to more comfortably coexist with these agitating arthropods.

Hank gives you at least three reasons to like mosquitoes even less than you do already, and tells you how you can literally decrease world suck by fighting mosquito-borne disease.

The Plague! The Black Death! You've heard of some version of this disease, which wiped out massive percentages of the global population several times in recent millenia. Terrifying, no? So what causes it? Well now we know! It's a little...

Lesson on African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness): Causes, Symptoms and Treatment. African Trypanosomiasis is caused by parasitic protozoa from the genus trypanosoma. Trypanosoma protozoa are carried in the tsetse fly, and...

In this episode, Coyote’s eaten alive by the world’s deadliest animal: the mosquito. Mosquito bites can leave behind much more than an itchy, swollen welt. These bloodsucking insects carry diseases responsible for more than 1,000,000...