EL PASO, TX (KVIA) -- The City of El Paso has reported its fourth case of West Nile virus this year. According to the CDC, approximately 8 out of 10 individuals infected with West Nile virus remain ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Center for Lyme Action, a leading nonprofit dedicated to increasing federal funding for Lyme disease research, applauds the new U.S. Department of Health ...

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 ...

WASHOE COUNTY, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Northern Nevada Public Health (NNPH) – Vector Borne Disease Control is launching a drone program specifically designed to help reduce the number of mosquitoes ...

A collaborative, grant-funded program called Vector Educational Center for Training, Outreach and Resources, VECTOR, aims to expand and improve control capacity against vector-borne diseases across ...

Maryland has some of the highest cases of Lyme disease​ in the nation, yet funding for research is in jeopardy.

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 ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Due to the number of mosquitos in the city of Johnstown testing positive for West Nile virus, the Cambria County Vector Control Department’s Mosquito-Borne Disease Control program ...

Rates of babesiosis, a tick-borne parasitic disease, increased an average of 9% per year in the United States between 2015 and 2022 and four in 10 patients were found to be co-infected with another ...