The Category 5 hurricane caused catastrophic flooding and landslides, resulting in contaminated, disease-ridden water.

Six people have died of leptospirosis, a rare bacterial illness often found in contaminated water. The storm increased the ...

When Panama disease devastated Gros Michel banana production worldwide in the 20th century, growers moved to the Cavendish ...

In recent decades, there has been increasing focus on individual responsibility for health. The emphasis for non-communicable ...

The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the ...

Overcrowding at Kumasi Central Prison has turned it into a laboratory for treating neglected tropical diseases. The lack of ...

Frontiers in Tropical Diseases is pleased to launch a Research Topic inspired by the core themes of the 14th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and ...

The first new malaria treatment in decades holds promise against rising drug resistance after Swiss drugmaker Novartis ...

However, as climate change allows Aedes aegypti to move northward, survive at higher elevations and stay active for longer ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...

The impact can be severe. Insect-borne diseases like chikungunya and dengue can overwhelm health systems, affect quality of life and if undiagnosed and treated incorrectly, can be ...

Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma, MD, PhD, led a study in Gabon in which researchers gave a single-dose treatment combining an ...