Back in 2014, dermatologist Bridget McIlwee saw a 3-year-old patient in central Texas with unusual bumps on his ear. "They looked a little bit like almost kind of a benign mole that you would see in a ...

Move over mosquitos. There’s another blood-sucking biter Americans need to guard against because it can spread disease: the sand fly. Sand flies are tiny tan flies — about the quarter of the size of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tropical disease once seen almost exclusively in returning travelers is now being detected in Texas and the south in people with ...

Doctors are sounding the alarm on a deadly tropical disease spreading into the US, because it was once so rare that most physicians have never seen a single case of it. But now, leishmaniasis — a ...

Leishmaniasis is an infection from Leishmania parasites. It is transmitted through the bite of sand flies that have the parasite. An infection can be cutaneous, mucosal, or visceral. There are 1.5 to ...

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(CNN) — Move over mosquitos. There’s another blood-sucking biter Americans need to guard against because it can spread disease: the sand fly. (CNN) — Move over mosquitos. There’s another blood-sucking ...