CNY Lyme & Tick-Borne Disease Alliance announced the appointment of Melissa Rowe as its new executive director. A strategic senior leader and lifelong Central New Yorker, Rowe has experience in ...

Maryland has one of the highest Lyme disease rates in the nation. However, federal funding lapses, cancellations and delays have left research at local institutions in limbo, including Johns Hopkins ...

Janine Hauck doesn't know which tick gave her anaplasmosis and Lyme disease. She just remembers the fatigue, weakness and nausea. The Mt. Lebanon, Pa., resident was an avid hiker, backpacker, dancer, ...

Maryland has some of the highest cases of Lyme disease in the nation, yet funding for research is in jeopardy. Lyme disease is the most common and fastest-growing vector-borne disease in the United ...

Claims that Lyme disease was developed as a military bioweapon and escaped from a government lab are flatly contradicted by decades of scientific evidence -- despite what federal regulators have ...

Malaria is caused by a parasite that is spread to humans by infected mosquitoes. In 2024, almost 282 million people worldwide were infected and 610,000 died, according to the World Health Organization ...

A woman in Long Island recently fell ill with a mosquito-borne virus rarely seen in the United States. She had not traveled abroad. The virus, called chikungunya, causes fever and extreme joint pain.

Published in Insects, the discovery highlights how the combination of mobile technology and machine learning can fill critical surveillance gaps for vector-borne diseases. The paper's findings are ...

A Long Island resident tested positive for chikungunya virus, marking New York’s first locally acquired case since 2019, state health officials announced. The CDC issued a travel warning for China, ...