As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds - ticks.

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Dr. Sarah Short, an associate professor of entomology at Ohio State University, points out that not everyone faces the same risk from mosquitoes. It depends ...

What to know: Dengue is spread by Aedes mosquito bites. Most cases are mild, but severe symptoms like bleeding from the nose ...

Dengue has recently shown up in California, Florida and Texas, places where it's not usually found. Experts fear that climate change and no vaccine could help it spread further across North America.

Dengue is endemic — a label health officials assign when diseases appear consistently in a region — in many warmer parts of the world, including Latin America, India, and Southeast Asia.

A groundbreaking study of 1.2 million veterans reveals your home state dramatically impacts dementia risk. Southeast ...

Dengue fever is a serious illness with ongoing outbreaks in the Philippines, Yap, Palau and the Marshall Islands. More: Public Health: First locally acquired dengue fever on Guam in 75 years ...

A new study, published recently in Nature Communications, offers the first-ever map of which parts of the Chikungunya virus ...