Climate Change

Rising dengue incidence in Puerto Rico signals broadening health concerns.

The assay, the cobas Malaria test, is manufactured by Roche, and will be available in the United States at the end of Q2 2024.

The increase highlights the threat posed by climate change and the need for innovative preparedness, prevention, and mitigation tools.

How acute malnutrition undermines Malaria in children under 5 years old.

CDC on enhancing strategies against drinking water diseases.

Climate change's role in the expanding threat of vector-borne diseases.

A rise in cases of the waterborne pathogen.

Innovative treatments, challenging prevention, and impact of climate change.

The impact of the new surveillance criteria on case identification.

Study offers new insight into the relationship between Zika Virus and Dengue Virus in tropical regions.

CDC's preventive strategies against the world's most prevalent mosquito-borne disease.

Hurricane season is accompanied by an uptick in infectious diseases associated with environmental and water exposures.

The vaccine is steps behind another Chikungunya vaccine candidate from Valneva, which is currently under priority review by the FDA.

The federal agency has identified a total of 5 cases in Florida and Texas within the last two months.

Even low levels of air pollution make COVID-19 worse, this study found. Air pollution exposure was associated with more severe disease, longer hospitalization periods, and an increased likelihood of intensive care admission.

The floods, heat waves, droughts, and other calamities caused by excessive greenhouse gas emissions also make us more vulnerable to ill effects of pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, plants and fungi.

The R21/Matrix-M vaccine can now be used in Ghana and could help in the prevention of a vector-borne disease that kills over 600,000 people annually.

The incidence rate of babesiosis in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire saw a dramatic increase over a multiyear period and saw an increase overall in other states where the disease is endemic.

With evolving weather patterns, the natural habitat of ticks is expanding, and more people are becoming susceptible to them.

As someone who lives with the long-term effects of chikungunya, Camillo Mora PhD, sees the expanding habitat of mosquitos and is concerned more people will be exposed to vector-borne illnesses and deal with not only the acute phases of these viruses but also the possibility of long-term health effects they can present.

The European Commission has approved their first dengue vaccine, Takeda’s TAK-003, as climate change and urbanization contribute to a worldwide rise in dengue incidence.

As greenhouse gas emissions result in floods, heat waves, and more extreme weather events, people and pathogens are thrown closer together.

Research shows specific climate elements affect mosquito proliferation and can play a role in predictors of vector activity and insect control interventions.