If you notice a small bump or sore on your body, you should get it checked out by a medical professional because it could be a sign of a parasitic infection called leishmaniasis. The Leishmania ...

Move over mosquitos. There’s another blood-sucking biter Americans need to guard against because it can spread disease: the sand fly. Sand flies are tiny tan flies — about the quarter of the size of a ...

A tropical disease once seen almost exclusively in returning travelers is now being detected in Texas and the south in people with no international travel history — caused by a parasite strain that’s ...

Professor Gideon Wasserberg at UNC Greensboro has been awarded a prestigious $3.7 million National Institutes of Health R01 grant to advance his research on controlling sand flies, the vectors of the ...

Sand flies are tiny tan flies — about the quarter of the size of a mosquito — that live in warm areas, usually those that are rural and forested. In other parts of the world, they are known to ...