Six people have died of leptospirosis, a rare bacterial illness often found in contaminated water. The storm increased the risk of contracting the disease, officials said.
Scorpion sting envenomation meets all the criteria to be recognised as a neglected tropical disease, yet it remains ...
Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd. There is an absence of awareness, education, and diagnostics for melioidosis, a fatal but preventable infection. Why is ...
Five years ago, my mother returned from visiting family in India with what we thought was the flu. Within days, her joints swelled like balloons. The diagnosis was chikungunya — a mosquito-borne virus ...
Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by a parasite carried by insects called kissing bugs, should now be considered endemic in the United States, experts say – and without recognition ...
The parasitic infection schistosomiasis affects an estimated 200 million people globally, many of them children. But campaigns to identify and treat it face formidable hurdles. Mohammed Aliyu, 11, ...
Pathogens around the world just got a helping hand from the Trump administration. Next year should have been a year of celebration for experts dedicated to ridding the world of disabling and deadly ...
Introduction Recent advancements in diagnosing tropical fevers increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI). These innovations focus on diagnosing single or multiple diseases, significantly reducing ...
A little-known disease is spreading in the U.S., primarily in the state of California, health officials warn. In a new study published in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers ...
A potentially life-threatening tropical disease once thought to be imported is now being transmitted locally in parts of the U.S.—and Texas is at the center of its spread, according to new research ...