According to figures from the World Health Organization, vector-borne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious ...

Worldwide, the bulk of the costs associated with the disease were due to chronic illness among those who survived acute ...

A strange new illness is spreading through a remote part of the world, leaving dozens dead – and experts fearing the worst.

Warm weather is here and mosquitoes are on the rise in Australia. Unseasonably large swarms are causing problems in some ...

Vector biologist Luciano Moreira has been fighting disease-causing pathogens for years. Now he teams up with Wolbachia in ...

A mysterious illness in the Democratic Republic of Congo, initially feared to be "Disease X," has likely been identified as ...

The mosquito-borne disease chikungunya has a higher global burden than previously estimated, an international team of researchers reports in BMJ Global Health. The analysis concludes that between ...

World Health Organization report finds insecticide-resistant mosquitos, wars and extreme weather among key factors blocking ...

The health and financial implications of the emerging threat of mosquito-borne chikungunya viral infection have most likely ...

The weekly shop in Brazil is a little different these days, and may soon change in other parts of the world plagued by dengue ...