"Knowing that mosquitoes in an area have a strong preference for humans serves as an alert for transmission risk," said co-author Dr. Sergio Machado, a microbiology and immunology researcher at the ...

Releasing male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia cut wild mosquito numbers in Singapore and lowered dengue infection risk.

Mosquito-borne diseases kill more than 700,000 people every year, according to the World Health Organization, and the mosquitoes that spread the disease are difficult to control. Most species have ...

Mosquito season in the United States is no longer just a summer nuisance. A cluster of new data on an obscure virus called Oropouche, alongside surging dengue and eastern equine encephalitis, suggests ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — The Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito ...

Daniel Stolte, science writer for UA Communications, tells us: For years, researchers worldwide have attempted to create genetically altered mosquitoes that cannot infect humans with malaria. Those ...

For the first time ever, mosquitoes have been found in Iceland. The island nation in the North Atlantic was one of the few places on Earth without the insect. But could climate change be behind the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Albuquerque Republican Sen. Nicole Tobiassen, the fight against mosquitoes is personal now. In September, Tobiassen’s husband ...

As summer ushers in peak mosquito season, health and vector control officials are bracing for the possibility of another year of historic rates of dengue. And with climate change, the lack of an ...

Data would be broken down into different demographics, counts by month, and area ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. They want to suck your blood — and spread disease. The New Mexico Department of Health on Thursday issued an ...