The U.S. government has unveiled a National Public Health Strategy to Prevent and Control Vector-Borne Diseases in People, which 17 federal departments and agencies jointly worked to develop. The ...

Vector-borne diseases cause roughly 700,000 deaths worldwide every year. Vectors can carry different types of pathogens, including viruses and bacteria. Tropical and subtropical regions report large ...

A WHO-sponsored series of articles describing biodiversity data relevant to vector-borne diseases has just been published in the journal GigaByte. This special series presents a wide variety of data ...

Led by a team of Cornell faculty, the Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases received a five-year, $8.7 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in ...

What do insects like mosquitos, fleas, lice, and ticks have in common? They’re all classified as vectors by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO defines vectors as “living organisms that can ...

LOVELAND, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Antech™, a global veterinary diagnostics, technology and imaging company, today announced the launch of two new vector-borne disease diagnostics in their expanding ...

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On a blisteringly hot, sunny day this summer, Emory University researcher Arabella Lewis made her way through the underbrush in a patch of woods in Putnam County, Georgia, about an hour southeast of ...

The U.S. has seen an increase in mosquito-borne illnesses in recent years, and some of these infections can have serious side effects, such as coma, seizures and even death. West Nile, dengue and ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- To help respond to emerging and established vector-borne threats, the Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEVBD), led by Cornell, has received a ...