Image by: Image by: Shawn Carpenter; CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED The 2024 Olympics have begun, and more than 10 million people are expected to be
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Image courtesy of Ben Rauch via Flickr Creative Commons On July 11, 2020, the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County (DOH-Monroe) received conformation on
Image courtesy of Arthur Chapman via Flickr Creative Commons Background What is considered to be the world’s deadliest animal? Is it snakes, or sharks,
Image courtesy of Tom via Flickr Creative Commons Background Dengue virus is an acute illness that is spread through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito.
A case of malaria in a three-month old infant was confirmed on Wednesday, February 24th, 2018. The infant was originally admitted to the hospital
On February 2016, in a district of Piracicaba, Brazil, genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes were released in an effort to reduce diseases transmitted by the Aedes
Aedes aegypti in the Americas Latin America is currently fighting to prevent the diseases transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito: Zika, Dengue, and Chikungunya. There
Since December 5, 2015, a Yellow fever outbreak in Angola has claimed 125 lives, with 664 suspected cases [1, 2]. The municipality of Viana in
An NIH study published in The Lancet Infectious Disease earlier this month indicates that the anti-malarial medication dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine has failed to treat Plasmodium falciparum malaria
Cases of dengue fever have increased in Southeast Asia over the last few months. Vietnam has reported more than 20,000 cases of dengue so far