Climate change has become a pressing public health crisis around the world, as disease patterns worsen and emerge in regions where they did not exist before. Health experts are particularly concerned ...

Emerging vector-borne diseases are an important issue in global health. Many vector-borne pathogens have appeared in new regions in the past two decades, while many endemic diseases have increased in ...

States have been directed to map high-risk hotspots, stock essential medicines, and ramp up local surveillance as the country ...

Monsoon, the season of incessant rains and highly humid weather is here for some time. Courtesy the non-stop rains in many parts of the country, the problem of waterlogging is on rise. In such weather ...

Vector-borne diseases are illnesses transmitted by vectors living organisms like mosquitoes, ticks, and flies that carry and spread pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, or parasites. During the ...

Imagine you're hiking in the woods, unaware of the tiny ticks and mosquitoes around you. Meanwhile, someone drinks water from a contaminated source without realising the danger. These situations ...

Human trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne parasitic disease. Cattle, wild mammals and humans act as the reservoir host of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma. Tsetse flies can acquire the parasites by ...

Countries in the Americas have also historically been leaders in preventing, controlling, and eliminating vector-borne diseases as public health problems. Great examples of this are malaria in the ...