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 ...

SAN JUAN – The United States faces its first real challenge with the Zika virus on the island territory of Puerto Rico, a part of the nation that is perhaps least prepared to cope with what is ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week announced a bold step to enhance public health preparedness for diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks in the nation’s Southwest.

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 five-year, $8.7 million ...

In 2016 more than 96,000 people in the U.S. were infected with a tick, mosquito or flea borne illness according to the Centers for Disease Control. In 2004 it was under 30,000. The number of cases of ...

Managing mosquito-borne viruses, such as West Nile, Dengue, Zika and tick-borne Lyme disease have been a challenge due to lack of resources, knowledge and trained expertise. To better understand, ...

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 ...

Global health agencies are intensifying surveillance and preparedness efforts against emerging infectious diseases, from dengue and malaria to novel viral threats. The WHO has released new R&D ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says emergency room visits for tick bites are at the highest levels since 2017 ...