According to figures from the World Health Organization, vector-borne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious ...

To Pietri, who studies urban pests and vector-borne disease, all of this evidence is not only inconclusive, but out of date. Plenty of bedbugs’ close relatives transmit diseases, so why not bedbugs?

More information: The global health and economic burden of chikungunya from 2011 to 2020: a model-driven analysis on the impact of an emerging vector-borne disease, BMJ Global Health (2024).

Even as efforts were made to tackle communicable, water- borne and vector-borne diseases, the major challenge was the emerging non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the incidence of which had been ...

Heterogeneity is ubiquitous in real-world host populations, yet most theories assume homogeneity. Using a metapopulation model, we examine how host heterogeneities, such as uneven movement patterns ...

These symptoms are associated with malaria, but other infections that may be causing the illness include measles and mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya. The Africa Centres for ...

Infectious diseases tend to spread during the winter holiday season in the Northern Hemisphere. (Manuel Romano / NurPhoto via Getty Images) It's that time of year, when families and friends come ...

Do you need to jot notes? Is a color screen important to you? Once you've figured out what exactly you want from your ebook reader, you can use my list of the best ereaders below to find what's ...

We’re not convinced that internal storage is hugely important unless you intend to cram an insane number of audiobooks onto your ereader as, otherwise, the base 16GB can hold hundreds of ebooks ...