Emergency rooms are seeing an uptick in visits related to bites from a common parasite, according to the Centers for Disease ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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