Emerging vector-borne diseases are an important issue in global health. Many vector-borne pathogens have appeared in new regions in the past two decades, while many endemic diseases have increased in ...

Imagine you're hiking in the woods, unaware of the tiny ticks and mosquitoes around you. Meanwhile, someone drinks water from a contaminated source without realising the danger. These situations ...

This World Health Day 7 April WHO is highlighting the serious and increasing threat of vector-borne diseases, with the slogan 'Small bite, big threat'. April 7 is World Health Day and the theme this ...

Vector-borne and waterborne diseases are two different categories of diseases based on the mode of transmission, but they may have some common symptoms. Symptoms like high fever, body ache, headache ...

Vector-borne diseases are illnesses transmitted by vectors living organisms like mosquitoes, ticks, and flies that carry and spread pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, or parasites. During the ...

Human trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne parasitic disease. Cattle, wild mammals and humans act as the reservoir host of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma. Tsetse flies can acquire the parasites by ...

Countries in the Americas have also historically been leaders in preventing, controlling, and eliminating vector-borne diseases as public health problems. Great examples of this are malaria in the ...