When an 8-year old boy showed up at his school's clinic in rural Haiti with a low-grade fever and abdominal pain, he was told he had typhoid and given medicine to treat it. But blood tests showed ...

MAYARO, Trinidad — It is growing under the sea off Trinidad — a mud volcano that fills people who live nearby with foreboding and may soon emerge as the world's newest island. Since it was discovered ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla., Sept. 16 (UPI) --Researchers identified a mosquito-borne virus in a boy in Haiti, where it had previously not been seen before. As officials in the United States struggle to get ...

Mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles are well known as primary vectors of malaria. But a new study suggests that Anopheles species, including some found in the United States, also are capable of carrying ...

Researchers have identified a patient in Haiti with a serious mosquito-borne illness that has never before been reported in the Caribbean nation. University of Florida researchers have identified a ...

MAYARO, Trinidad — It is growing under the sea off Trinidad — a mud volcano that fills people who live nearby with foreboding and may soon emerge as the world's newest island. Since it was discovered ...

On a sunny day last Friday water gushed down from Begorat Hill in Mayaro, flooding several streets and at least 45 homes. It was no act of God and residents found out afterwards the water came from a ...

A 33-year-old woman was allegedly sexually assaulted and physically beaten by her former partner during a violent encounter in Mayaro last week, prompting a police investigation that has since led to ...

It's called Mayaro virus. It was first identified in 1954 and has been active near the Amazon. Now it appears to have popped up in Haiti. When an 8-year old boy showed up at his school's clinic in ...

Mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles are well known as primary vectors of malaria. But a new study suggests that Anopheles species, including some found in the United States, also are capable of carrying ...