Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and extreme weather events create ideal conditions for pathogens and their vectors—such as mosquitoes, midges and ticks—to thrive. Subscribe to our ...

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 ...

Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is primarily transmitted by triatomine bugs, a diverse group of haematophagous insects. Recent advances in salivary proteomics have ...

Aired September 22 2020 Not all mosquitoes feed on human and mammal hosts and a few globally distributed species account for the bulk of infectious pathogens transmitted to humans and domestic animals ...

From commercial crops to natural habitats, wild hogs are equal opportunity destroyers. These vicious animals also prey on native wildlife and livestock and are vectors of disease. According to the ...

Professor Gideon Wasserberg at UNC Greensboro has been awarded a prestigious $3.7 million National Institutes of Health R01 grant to advance his research on controlling sand flies, the vectors of the ...