In 2024, "sloth fever" hit the news cycle as a new public health threat: The virus was found in people who'd recently ...

The analysis used electronic medical record data to identify risk factors for neuroinvasive illness and death after West Nile ...

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Mosquito and tick-borne diseases may become rampant in the South Bay as the Santa Clara County Vector Control District faces ...

Older people with a history of chronic kidney disease or conditions affecting blood flow to the brain such as stroke face ...

Malaria, dengue, Zika virus, and West Nile fever are all diseases that can be spread by mosquitoes. Hundreds of thousands of ...

These trends threaten to undermine progress made in tackling animal vector-borne pathogens, including decades of investment and emerging technologies such as harnessing bacteria, genetic engineering ...

While most Kunjin infections in humans cause mild or no symptoms, the virus can occasionally lead to serious brain ...

In 2024, a Washington Post analysis showed that the average number of mosquito days — days with an average humidity of at ...