West Nile Virus was once a nominal concern for Utahns but since August 2003, when it was first detected in the Beehive State, infections in Utah residents have steadily risen.

Global heating has so profoundly altered our planet that some experts argue it's no longer about a changing climate and instead about a changed climate. In other words, the hotter, more chaotic world ...

The world’s changing climate is quietly orchestrating one of the most significant public health transformations in modern history, bringing dangerous tropical diseases to communities that have never ...

Morphology is the study of the form and structure of organisms, including their physical characteristics such as shape, size and arrangement of parts. Morphology is key to taxonomy, the science of ...

“Our research clearly demonstrates that the next major health emergency may not be a sudden new outbreak, but the steady ...

The Disease Bridge: How Our Cities Are Inviting Wildlife Viruses In As suburbs expand into forests, grasslands, and wetlands, ...

Aired September 29 2020 As land is deforested and tick ranges expand, Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses are a growing threat to humans and pets. In Part 2 of Disease Vectors in the U.S.A., ...

According to the World Health Organization, climate change is the greatest threat to public health in the 21st century. This issue took center stage at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology ...

Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is primarily transmitted by triatomine bugs, a diverse group of haematophagous insects. Recent advances in salivary proteomics have ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this workshop summary was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy ...

Disease vectors are living organisms, typically arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, sandflies, and triatomine bugs, that biologically or mechanically transmit pathogenic agents between hosts, ...