An influx of cases could ultimately strain health care systems. Health officials issue urgent warning as deadly tropical disease surges in new region: 'A historic peak' first appeared on The Cool Down ...

Global health advocates often argue that the tropical diseases that plague many ... that lose biodiversity will have a heavier burden of vector-borne and parasitic diseases. Their results appear ...

Protecting trees might not seem like a public health strategy, but new research suggests it could be—especially in the tropics.

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

Fragments of West Nile Virus have been identified in mosquitoes collected in the UK for the first time, according to a UK ...

It also means that some parts of the tropics will see a decline in vector-borne NTDs. “People sometimes just assume higher temperatures automatically mean more tropical diseases,” says Hotez.

She is board member for Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases. There are already tools to prevent and treat these diseases. They include drugs, vector control, veterinary public health ...

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and vector reservoirs to develop an adaptive healthcare system—particularly in the context of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Advt NTDs, a group of 21 debilitating infectious diseases ...

Dr Dorothy Achu, Team Lead for Tropical Vector-Borne Diseases at WHO Regional Office for Africa. “We must ensure diseases disproportionately affecting the poorest and most marginalized populations ...

The arrival of monsoon, on the other hand, significantly increases the risk of transmission of these tropical, vector-borne illnesses. Seasonal illnesses may be debilitating and deadly at a time ...