Medicine, Conflict and Survival, Vol. 27, No. 2 (May 2011), pp. 111-127 (17 pages) Armed violence is a significant public health problem. It results in fatal and non-fatal injuries and disrupts social ...

How do epidemics of vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, come about? What role does the environment play in this process? One approach to understanding the ecology of vector-borne diseases is to ...

Vector preference based on host infection status has long been recognized for its importance in disease dynamics. Prior theoretical work has assumed that all hosts are uniformly susceptible to the ...

It is hard to overstate the medical importance and burden of vector-transmitted infectious diseases. Whether the metric used is mortality (malaria, for example, kills 1 million to 2 million people ...

Evolutionary ecology is an amalgamation of evolutionary biology and ecology, which considers evolutionary relationships and genetic changes in species or populations as well as their interactions with ...

In a recent review published in Nature Reviews Microbiology, researchers discussed the impact of climate change, weather, and other anthropogenic factors on vector-borne illness spread globally. Study ...