Climate change is driving the emergence and re-emergence of climate-sensitive infectious diseases in Canada. Such emerging ...

As ticks and mosquitoes return with a vengeance this spring, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine are continuing to research ...

Climate change is affecting the local ecology in Canada, contributing to emerging tick- and mosquito-borne diseases and ...

In February 2025, the classical pianist Betsy Arakawa died in her New Mexico home from a virus most people had never heard of ...

The introduction and spread of new and/or re-emerging plant pests and diseases are responsible for severe losses in agricultural production, with negative ...

A seven-week dengue chain in LA County shows the continental US is closer to the threshold for tropical disease transmission ...

The May 2026 outbreak of a type of hantavirus, called Andes virus, among passengers of a cruise ship has brought rodent-borne ...

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A hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship has resulted in three deaths, with WHO investigating rare human-to-human transmission of the Andes virus.

Infection with vector-borne pathogens starts with the inoculation of these pathogens during blood feeding. In endemic regions, the population is regularly bitten by naive vectors, implicating a ...

Over the last half century, diseases carried by insects — such as malaria and dengue, Zika and Lyme disease — have greatly increased. Sociologists Brent Kaup and Kelly Austin argue that the surge in ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Ticks have garnered significant research interest owing to their ability to vector pathogens into humans and animals. The intricate symbiotic ...