Political, climatic, and socio-economic changes related to technology, transportation, and food security have positively and negatively impacted society. They have affected the distribution patterns ...

The microorganisms that cause malaria, leishmaniasis and a variety of other illnesses today can be traced back at least to the time of dinosaurs, a study of amber-preserved blood-sucking insects and ...

Some plant and animal pathogens can manipulate their hosts to cause them to release odors that are attractive to the pathogens' arthropod vectors. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this ...

CRISPR-Cas9 has revolutionized functional genetics research in many organisms. This gene-editing technique has been applied to mosquitoes and other arthropod disease vectors, but successful gene ...

Despite their capacity to spread debilitating pathogens, research on ticks has lagged behind other arthropod vectors, such as mosquitoes. This is, in large part, because of challenges in applying ...

Can data about infections from vectors such as mosquitoes or ticks among travellers arriving from Africa inform local surveillance systems in Africa? Researchers from Europe and the Africa CDC looked ...

It is hard to overstate the medical importance and burden of vector-transmitted infectious diseases. Whether the metric used is mortality (malaria, for example, kills 1 million to 2 million people ...