Phytoplasma diseases represent a significant threat to agroecosystems worldwide. These wall‐less, insect‐transmitted pathogens disrupt plant physiology by colonising the phloem and altering host ...

Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and extreme weather events create ideal conditions for pathogens and their vectors—such as mosquitoes, midges and ticks—to thrive. Some of the authors ...

Candida auris is adapting to warmer ecosystems, including the human body. The first US case was reported in 2016. In 2023, 4,514 new C. auris cases were reported in the United States, according to the ...

Global heating has so profoundly altered our planet that some experts argue it's no longer about a changing climate and instead about a changed climate. In other words, the hotter, more chaotic world ...

Spanish scientists, trying to understand the effects of climate change on human health, recently measured excess deaths in Europe during the summer of 2023, the hottest on record before summer of 2024 ...

Prof. Wolfgang Preiser receives funding from various scientific grant funders, directly and indirectly, incl. South African NRF, PRF, NHLS-RT and more. He is affiliated with the University of ...

Balloon sampling has now confirmed that mosquitoes migrating high above West Africa often carry transmissible pathogens, a finding that could reshape how we track and manage vector-borne diseases.

Director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Plaform (KRISP)., Stellenbosch University Rising ...