Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: Life Cycle of Malaria, Part 1
In this lifelike animation, watch what happens inside a host when a malaria parasite-carrying mosquito bites a human. [4:17]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Experience: Lessons From Silent Spring for Controlling Disease: Rachel Carson
Find out why, decades after the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' exposed the unintended consequences of popular pesticides like DDT, some critics are connecting a renewed rise in malaria around the globe to Carson's...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Malaria Update
New research tackles the question of why don't mosquitoes get malaria. [6:43]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr Videos: Skunk Bear: Herbs and Empires: A Brief History of Malaria Drugs
What do Jesuit priests, gin and tonics, and ancient Chinese scrolls have in common? They all show up in our animated history of malaria. [2:35]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Blood Disorders and Diseases
This lesson will identify the cause and effects of various blood disorders. [5:21]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge: Malaria Treatment and Prevention Strategies
This video segment adapted from Rx for Survival examines malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a disease that kills more than one million children there each year. [4:31]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Joel Breman Thinks World Can Eliminate Malaria by 2050
Learn about the current efforts to prevent the spread of malaria, from prevention techniques to the drugs that are available. Joel Breman talks about a how a new class of drugs and bed nets treated with insecticide can offer protection...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Treatment of Malaria
This video explains the different treatments for malaria based on the severity of the disease. [8:30]
A&E Television
History.com: The Engineering That Built the World: The Panama Canal
Two powerful nations -- France and America -- compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Completing it will cost 30 thousand lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming every...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge: Eradicating Malaria With Ddt
Discover the story of Dr. Fred Soper and his efforts to eliminate malaria in this video segment adapted from Rx for Survival. Dr. Soper targeted the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, the species known to spread malaria. He devised a strategy...
Sumanas
Sumanas Inc: Malaria: Cooperation Among Parasite, Vector, and Host
This animation shows how the malaria life cycle is completed through mosquitos and humans.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Tropical Medicine Update
We'll check in on the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting and talk about highlights from the conference.