Tag: Disease in the Developing World

Credit: NIAID (CC BY 2.0, 2016) Mosquito-borne viruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, already threaten over a billion people ...

About 40 percent of the global population is at risk for contracting dengue - the most important mosquito-borne viral infection ...

WASHINGTON -- As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the ...

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) today announced that, for the first time, the U.S. Food ...

Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient and notoriously difficult disease to treat, has killed millions through the course of human history; and ...

Scientists propose revising the guidelines to take data from sub-Saharan Africa into account, reports the Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, March ...

A quarter of people surveyed during active 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo believed the virus was ...

Improved housing estimated to have doubled between 2000 and 2015 but nearly 50 percent of the urban population still living ...

Computers which are capable of teaching themselves to predict premature death could greatly improve preventative healthcare in the future, suggests ...

Populations with a high prevalence of AIDS-immunocompromised people are more likely to see the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, according ...

InDevR launches first-in-class reagent kit for rapid quantification of N9 in 'pandemic' influenza vaccinesCredit: InDevR BOULDER COLORADO (3/26/19) -- InDevR ...

While current therapies for HIV can successfully manage active infection, the virus can survive in tissue reservoirs, including macrophage cells, ...

Parasitic worms cause cancer -- and could help cure it Billions worldwide are infected with tropical worms. Unsurprisingly, most of ...

Credit: Beerli TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A sophisticated new analysis tool developed by Florida State University scientists may signal a new ...