Infectious disease specialist Jesús Feris Iglesias believes that the Dominican Republic does not have the conditions for an ...

Yellow fever is a menacing disease which has caused the death of enormous numbers of people in the past. It has been known since 1648 among people living on the islands in the Caribbean Sea and along ...

Here’s a look at Zika virus, an illness spread through mosquito bites that can cause birth defects and other neurological defects. Facts Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...

Primate Society of Great Britain Grant, supporting range state nationals working with threatened primates, is now open for ...

had watched jungle yellow fever (the same old yellow jack except that monkeys and rodents as well as mosquitoes carry it) move toward Panama from the Brazilian Amazon. He knew that it had been ...

Paddington's in Peru! Here's what to pack and what to expect for your Amazon River cruise in Peru (and why you might not want ...

A legal dispute over tree damage ends with Joburg City Parks removing two trees, underscoring the consequences of poor urban tree choices.

The Gauteng High Court ruled that City Parks should not be forced to cut down two trees, but the entity has since changed its ...

These outbreaks were associated with laboratory work using African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops ... plague, and yellow fever (smallpox was then such a universal disease that it was ...

Although sick monkeys do not transmit the disease, they are an indication of virus circulation. Yellow fever is an acute infectious febrile disease caused by a virus. This virus is transmitted by the ...

Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), commonly known as monkey fever, is a vector-borne haemorrhagic fever transmitted by ticks from infected monkeys to people. It has no cure. Work on the country’s ...