Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...
When you think of yellow fever and other mosquito-borne illnesses, which are diseases that spread to people when they’re bitten by an infected mosquito, you probably assume they don’t happen often in ...
Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...
The mosquito-borne disease known as yellow fever is primed for a resurgence, say medical experts, and the US is woefully unprepared. Yellow fever joins other diseases — malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis ...
Cases of yellow fever and dengue are rising sharply in South America, signaling a broader health risk tied directly to climate change. According to data from the Pan American Health Organization, ...
More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever this year, the country's worst recorded outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease, which is increasing in frequency due to climate change.