Health Ministry urges strict fogging protocols to curb dengue and malaria THE Ministry of Health has renewed its call for ...

Vector ecologist Chuck Lubelczyk says ticks are established in every county except Aroostook, and it's common for them to ...

Led by a team of Cornell faculty, the Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases received a five-year, $8.7 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in ...

Targeted indoor residual spraying focuses insecticide applications on common resting surfaces of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes (an arboviral disease vector) in houses, such as exposed lower sections of ...

Around the world, insects wreak havoc on public health as carriers of infectious diseases such as malaria and Zika virus. People in some regions mitigate these risks by deterring the pests from ...

Kissing bugs, or triatomine bugs, are the primary vector for Chagas disease, a major public health concern in Central and South America and even the southern United States. However, there aren't many ...

A collaborative, grant-funded program called Vector Educational Center for Training, Outreach and Resources, VECTOR, aims to expand and improve control capacity against vector-borne diseases across ...

Introduction: Current topics in the population biology of infectious diseases -- Heterogeneity, stochasticity and complexity in the dynamics and control of mosquito-borne pathogens -- Seven challenges ...

A national technical conclave on advances in urban pest management and vector control concluded in Ahmedabad on 28 April 2026, bringing together senior public health leaders, government officials, ...

Chikungunya and severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) are two distinct but increasingly important vector-borne public health threats in China. Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease ...