mosquitos

The world’s first malaria vaccine was launched in Malawi on Tuesday, NPR reported. It’s an important day in health history. Not only is it the first malaria vaccine, it’s the first vaccine to target any human parasite. The vaccine is the result of a more than 30-year effort by the World Health Organization (WHO), the […]

By Marlene Cimons Mosquitoes are unrelenting killers. In fact, they are among the most lethal animals in the world. When they carry dangerous viruses or other organisms, a bite can be unforgiving. They cause millions of deaths every year from such infectious diseases as malaria, dengue, Zika, chikungunya, yellow fever and at least a dozen […]

In the past 25 years, the world has made major progress improving child health and reducing child mortality. But all that hard work could be undone by climate change, a study published in Pediatrics Tuesday warned. Pediatricians Dr. Kevin Chan of Memorial University and Dr. Rebecca Pass Philipsborn of the Emory University School of Medicine […]

The number of diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites more than tripled in the U.S. from 2004 through 2016, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 640,000 cases were reported during those 13 years. There were more than 96,000 cases in 2016, a […]

By Cassidy Randall, MADE SAFE A new report from Made Safe, Bug Repellent: What’s In It?, examines common active ingredients in conventional insect repellent and their impacts to human health and the environment, as well as more natural options. There have been studies regarding the efficacy of some repellent chemicals individually. But researchers have yet […]