Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Ugandan and international collaborators, report that permethrin-treated baby wraps reduced clinical malaria cases in young children ...

On Monday, BYU released the depth chart for the Big 12 home opener against West Virginia. BYU running back Sione Moa was removed from the depth chart after missing the game against Colorado due to ...

Malaria remains a major cause of childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa. We leveraged the traditional practice of mothers carrying children on their backs in cloth wraps to assess whether treating the ...

MANILA, Philippines — A new bus stop for the EDSA Busway is set to open at the SM Mall of Asia (MOA). The Department of Transportation (DOTr) said it will conduct a dry run for a new northbound bus ...

People across the UK could be at risk from a disease that surged 100 years ago, thanks to students heading to university. Scabies surge in the UK during the wars in 1914 and again in 1939 - and ...

West Nile virus has been detected in mosquito samples in New Bedford, according to a community announcement. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health notified local health officials that the ...

Portage County has reported its first human case of West Nile virus for the year. The virus is transmitted to humans through bites from infected mosquitoes, not from person to person. While most ...

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Scientists analyzed the distribution of three potentially harmful tick species in Illinois, identifying regions of the state with higher numbers of these ticks and, therefore, at greater risk of ...

Lice checks were a dreaded part of my childhood — I remember anxiously waiting for the nurse to call my name for a checkup, hoping a call home wouldn’t follow (sometimes, I wasn’t so lucky). Head lice ...

WEST MONROE, N.Y. — The Oswego County Health Department reported on Tuesday, September 23 that a mosquito sample collected on Sept. 17 in the town of West Monroe has tested positive for EEEV. Although ...