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.

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 ...

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 ...

SAN JUAN – The United States faces its first real challenge with the Zika virus on the island territory of Puerto Rico, a part of the nation that is perhaps least prepared to cope with what is ...

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. 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 ...