This is the first time experiments have been able to completely block the reproductive capacity of a complex organism in the lab using a designer molecular approach

Lyme borreliosis is a disease caused by bacteria of the genus Borrelia that are transmitted by a bite from a tick of the genus Ixodes

New controls and frameworks are recommended to detect dengue and other infectious diseases and help prevent their spread during the 2020 summer Olympics and Paralympics

Barriers to eradication remain, but some hospitals are making progress

Predators, acorns, and fragmentation regulate numbers of infected ticks

Veterinary flea and tick drugs kill mosquitoes and other insects that carry diseases between humans

Penn study suggests that targeting amyloid fibrils could prevent sexual transmission

Flies can be more than pesky picnic crashers, they may be potent pathogen carriers, too

The new information provides clues to how scientists could design a composite toxin that would work against a broader range of mosquito species, including Aedes

The projections come weeks after the Florida Department of Health identified the nation’s first locally acquired cases of the Zika virus in Miami-Dade County