West Nile virus, Lyme disease, dengue fever, and plague are examples of "vector-borne zoonotic diseases," caused by pathogens that naturally infect wildlife and are transmitted to humans by vectors ...

Vector-borne diseases cause roughly 700,000 deaths worldwide every year. Vectors can carry different types of pathogens, including viruses and bacteria. Tropical and subtropical regions report large ...

Mosquitoes, ticks, flies, lice, aquatic snails have a particular feature in common ­ they can transmit disease to animals and humans. These diseases are called ‘vector-borne’ as their transmission ...

Emerging vector-borne diseases are an important issue in global health. Many vector-borne pathogens have appeared in new regions in the past two decades, while many endemic diseases have increased in ...

To better understand the effects of climate change on agroecosystems, researchers conducted one of the first transdisciplinary studies on the effects of temperature change, leafhopper vector behavior, ...

Much of the Earth has been modified by humans, which has a flow-on effect on natural ecosystems, including the insects that carry disease. For the first time, researchers have examined when and how ...

"Climate change needs to be put out there as a major driver of vector-borne disease in the U.S.," Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Texas' Baylor College of Medicine, ...

Many tropical diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease and dengue are transmitted to humans via mosquitoes and other carriers known as vectors. These vector-borne diseases continue to have a major ...

Patients in a Phase I/II clinical trial conducted by UMass Chan Medical School of a dual vector gene therapy for GM2 gangliosidosis, which includes Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases, exhibited a ...

West Nile virus, Lyme disease, dengue fever, and plague are examples of “vector-borne zoonotic diseases,” caused by pathogens that naturally infect wildlife and are transmitted to humans by vectors ...