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President Orders Major Push to Cut Mosquito and Tick Populations in Washington, D.C.

The order directs agencies to speed approvals for biotech and non-chemical controls and to run a D.C. pilot that could be scaled nationally.

Tick Reauthorization Act Becomes Law

Authorities Step Up Vaccination and Alerts as Rabies Persists in Bat Reservoirs

AI Detects Type 2 Diabetes From 20-Second Speech Sample

Los Angeles County Confirms 69 Rabid Bats, Matching Last Year’s Total

Three Tampa Bay Counties Declare Local Emergencies Over Dengue Outbreak

Los Angeles County Reports 100 West Nile Cases and Five Deaths

Woman Who Bagged Rabid Bat in Downtown Minneapolis Has Contacted Health Officials

Possible Measles Exposure Reported at Philadelphia International Airport

Florida Confirms First Dengue Death as Outbreak Grows

Ebola Outbreak in DR Congo Still Uncontrolled as Cases Concentrate in Ituri

Probable Measles Exposure at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

West Nile Cases Rise in New York City as Mosquito Pools Top 1,600

Virginia Tech Engineered Gut Bacterium Prevents Salmonella Infection in Mice

Flesh-Eating Vibrio Infections Push U.S. Deaths Into Double Digits

Massachusetts Confirms Seventh West Nile Case and Illinois Reports Two Neuroinvasive Hospitalizations

CDC Warns of Summer Rabies Spike Driving More Human Exposures

Recombinant Nanobody Antivenom Neutralizes Indian Cobra Venoms in Mice

Measles Cases Rise With Vaccinated Breakthrough and Travel-Linked Spread

Midwest States Confirm New Eastern Equine Encephalitis Cases in Horses