New grant will help develop vaccine to treat deadly Chagas disease.

America stamped out most tropical diseases years ago, but now it's seeing a resurgence in parasitic infections.

Dr. Peter Hotez, professor and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, has been named one of four U.S. science envoys by the U.S. State Department.

Ebola’s scary, but we have plenty of neglected diseases at home.

It could be called the "kissing bug" disease, after the parasite that causes it, and about as many people have heard about it as had heard of Ebola before the tropical scourge arrived in Dallas recently. The kissing bug disease - or, more precisely, Chagas disease - is not as …

More Than Ebola, Other Tropical Diseases Pose Growing Threat to U.S.

Chagas is getting more scrutiny after it apparently claimed the life of a man in Dallas. He suffered damage to heart tissue that can develop years after a victim suffers the disease’s initial flu-like symptoms. Nineteen cases of Chagas were reported to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission in …