Researchers report that several species of blood-sucking sand flies from disparate global regions have a predilection for feeding on the marijuana plant (Cannabis sativa). Female sand flies require ...

In the first barcoding survey of sand flies in Panama, scientists have identified 20 sand fly species from Barro Colorado Island. Two species carried Leishmania naiffi, a parasite that causes ...

Professor Gideon Wasserberg at UNC Greensboro has been awarded a prestigious $3.7 million National Institutes of Health R01 ...

With an estimated 500,000 human infections and 50,000 deaths annually, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the second most prevalent parasitic killer, behind malaria. Leishmania parasites are transmitted ...

Climate change is bringing diseases once considered tropical afflictions to the United States, and new research warns that a parasite spread by sand flies may be the latest to join this growing list.

A tropical disease, once only seen in returning travelers, is gaining a "firm foothold" in the southern United States, scientists warn. Experts have also raised concerns that a life-threatening form ...

From a distance, the dunes at Great Sand Dunes National Park look barren. Some dark areas can be seen, but the dark sands are rich in magnetite, an oxide of iron, exposed when the wind churns and ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina Greensboro made a surprising finding while examining areas where sand flies rear their young: a new species of ...