According to a recent study in Nature Communications, mosquitoes are increasingly spreading across the globe through trade ...

Maryland has some of the highest cases of Lyme disease​ in the nation, yet funding for research is in jeopardy.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 80 per cent of the population globally is at risk of contracting one or more vector-borne diseases. These infections, caused by ...

In medical terms, a vector is any living organism that facilitates the transfer of a particular infectious disease to another living organism. An example familiar to most of us would be the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The number of illnesses caused by the bite of infected mosquitoes, ticks and fleas has more than tripled in the ...

Mosquitoes, ticks, flies, lice, aquatic snails have a particular feature in common ­ they can transmit disease to animals and humans. These diseases are called ‘vector-borne’ as their transmission ...

"Climate change needs to be put out there as a major driver of vector-borne disease in the U.S.," Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Texas' Baylor College of Medicine, ...

Understanding how infectious diseases spread is crucial for public safety, according to Dr. Sameer Bhati. Diseases transmit through air, direct/indirect contact, vectors, and contaminated food/water.

Further validates continuation of the B-FREE Study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ARAKODA® (tafenoquine ) for treatment of chronic ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The term “vector-borne” refers to the way diseases ...