A travel alert has been issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning about the risk of "breakbone fever" — more commonly known as dengue fever — around the globe as travelers ...

Dengue’s brutal “breakbone” fever has long been one of global health’s most stubborn failures, a disease that keeps resurging even as other infections retreat. Now a convergence of mosquito ...

More than 3,290 cases of dengue fever have been reported in the U.S. and its territories, with more than half of cases occurring in Puerto Rico. Close up of Aedes Aegypti Mosquito resting on the leaf ...

The Centers for Disease Control has issued a travel alert about a “higher-than-usual” number of cases of a potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease.

This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported nearly 3,000 dengue fever cases in the US, a significant increase compared to previous years. These record numbers of dengue fever ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American What if a bacterial infection could prevent ...

A micrograph showing dengue virus virions (the cluster of dark dots near the center). There is no specific treatment for the mosquito-borne illness, making prevention the only defense. Here's ...

During the eighteen years that Dr. Charles Armstrong, 48, has been in the U. S. Public Health Service he has repeatedly risked his life investigating botulism, influenza, syphilis, spasms following ...