Florida health officials are now issuing warnings for a rise in cases of dengue fever in South Florida. Eleven locally-acquired cases of the disease have been found in Broward County and Miami-Dade ...

Don’t rule out malaria just because you haven’t traveled anywhere. In light of recent locally acquired cases in the U.S., the lack of international travel should not exclude a diagnosis of malaria ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Even when a person suffering from malaria is burning up with fever and too sick to function, the tiny blood-eating parasites lurking inside them continue to flourish, relentlessly ...

Increased p53, the well-known tumor-suppressor protein, can predict whether malaria-infected children will develop fever or other symptoms, suggests a new study. The authors say the findings could ...

Malaria, dengue fever, leprosy, diseases associated with tropical climates such as Africa, Asia and South America, are coming closer to home. As close as Florida and Texas, in fact, largely because of ...

This week public health officials in Harris County, Texas, confirmed that a mosquito sample collected in Houston had tested positive for West Nile virus. While mosquitos — and mosquito-borne illnesses ...

One thing worse than coming down with Malaria fever is not getting proper treatment for it. Maybe you’ve been there: trying one prescription after another, battling Malaria symptoms that seem to ...

Despite spending more than $1 billion every year on drugs, insecticide-treated nets, diagnostics, and public health campaigns, ...

National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), during a routine entomological study on Malaria, Dengue and ...

The parasites that cause 200 million cases of malaria each year can withstand feverish temperatures that make their human hosts miserable. Now, a team is beginning to understand how they do it. The ...