Research into early 20th-century medical journals reveals how scientific racism shaped representations of the Andean ...

A large survey of ticks across three Zambian provinces identifies twelve species and reveals sharp differences between ...

"Climate change is having a direct impact on the epidemiology of vector-borne illnesses. Travel-associated cases of vector-borne diseases do occur." Vector-borne diseases are medical conditions in ...

The Chicago Marathon starts under a yellow flag with a forecast high near 71, above the 65-degree normal. Heat illness signs and when to stop. Records show inspectors cited a Charlotte nursing home at ...

In a new study, Yale researchers identify the targets in the human body to which pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks, and other vectors bind. Their findings, they say, could help address the ...

Europe long thought itself safe from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Those old certainties have now evaporated. A warmer and wetter climate has made the continent more welcoming to vectors of ...

NPR's Pien Huang talks to Dr. Benjamin Beard, deputy director of the CDC's division of vector borne diseases, about how climate change could be contributing to the spread of diseases. As the planet ...

More than half of low- and middle-income countries reported climate-related changes in skin disease compared with 28% of high-income nations, a disparity driven in part by unequal healthcare ...

Global heating has so profoundly altered our planet that some experts argue it's no longer about a changing climate and instead about a changed climate. In other words, the hotter, more chaotic world ...

Long the bane of pet owners' existence, ticks and mosquitoes are expanding their geographic range due to warming temperatures, frequently bringing disease with them. A new study from the University of ...

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