Globally, more than half of patients die after infection with the neglected tropical disease, melioidosis, often before they are diagnosed. A new rapid test could save lives by diagnosing patients in ...

Mycetoma is a chronic and progressively debilitating disease that affects thousands of people living in tropical and subtropical regions, particularly those in low-resource settings. Characterized by ...

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“The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net.” Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume. (all images courtesy Wellcome Library) Striking visuals have long been essential to disease awareness, using art to ...

The World Health Organization warned on Friday that cases of dengue fever could reach close to record highs this year, partly due to global warming and the way that climate has helped the mosquitoes ...

Fidel Strub was 3 years old when his face began rotting away. “It’s hell. It’s like you have a burning face,” he told me. “You can’t even open your eyes because it’s just that bad. It’s just burning.” ...

Diseases that sound like the stuff of nightmares are running rampant on the world stage. A trip into Florida's brackish waters could mean an amputated limb or death thanks to the "flesh-eating" Vibrio ...

Doctors are sounding the alarm on a deadly tropical disease spreading into the US, because it was once so rare that most physicians have never seen a single case of it. But now, leishmaniasis — a ...

It’s a disease of children living in extreme poverty. Its cause is uncertain. So is the number of children it affects. But soon, the devastating condition known as noma may be a bit less neglected.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been confirmed that the mainland U.S. is now home to a disease once thought to only exist in tropical climates, as NPR has ...

In 1998, near the end of medical school, Marcus Lacerda, MD, PhD, infectious diseases physician and director of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) at the World ...