Mice that are already infected with the pathogen that causes Lyme disease appear to facilitate the spread of a lesser-known but emerging disease, babesiosis, into new areas. Research led by the Yale School...

The number of cases of the tick borne bacterial disease, anaplasmosis, continue to climb in Maine as the state Centers for Disease Control reports 164 cases statewide as of Nov. 18. This number is up 70...

On the Sunday, November 16 airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show, the main topics discussed were two parasitic diseases transmitted to humans primarily through a insect vector–Chagas disease...

Tick-borne diseases continue to climb in Maine, particularly anaplasmosis, which as of Sept. 30, the state has seen 39 more cases than all of 2013, according to the Maine CDC. Health officials say there...

A 55-year-old woman from Murska Sobota, Slovenia is the first proven human case of the parasitic disease, babesiosis, in the country, according to a Slovenia Press Agency report Friday. Babesiosis is...