Malaria, dysentery, yellow fever head the list of tropical diseases to be fought in World War II by the U.S. Medical Corps. Of the three, malaria, against which there is no true prophylactic ...

Travelers to regions where dengue circulates can unknowingly ... On a warming planet, the spread of tropical diseases like ...

Neglected tropical diseases are infectious pathogens including parasites, fungi, viruses and bacteria that disproportionately affect person’s living in resource limited tropical regions globally. Now ...

of whom 89,000 die from the disease. It is caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which lives in soil and water in tropical and subtropical regions and enters human bodies via ...

Despite their prevalence, these so-called neglected tropical diseases (NTDs ... treatment and monitoring for diseases afflicting the region, such as schistosomiasis and leishmaniasis.

Vector-borne diseases continue to pose significant global health challenges due to their widespread transmission by vectors such as mosquitoes, ticks, ...

Because the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes live near and prefer to feed on people, they are more likely to spread viral diseases than are the Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. Culex mosquitoes are distributed ...

"We are thankful to both the FDA for creating the TDPRV Program to drive development of drugs to benefit patients suffering from serious but often neglected tropical diseases, and to Streeterville ...

Achieve sustainable vegetable production in tropical regions using advanced breeding technology ... editing technology that can rapidly develop heat tolerant tomatoes and disease resistant chili ...