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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The number of illnesses caused by the bite of infected mosquitoes, ticks and fleas has more than tripled in the ...

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 ...

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 ...