In a new study, researchers found that restricting the preferred plant food sources of mosquitoes could curb the amount of vector-borne diseases transmitted to humans — including malaria. Malaria is ...

St. Louis Encephalitis can be transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito. The virus does not cause ...

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, ...

Scientists may have found a solution to stop the spread of malaria: poisoning mosquitoes with human blood. New research ...

A new study published Wednesday suggests that a rare medication has the potential to make human blood deadly to mosquitoes.

Avoid stagnant water around the house — in plant trays, buckets, or open containers — as these serve as breeding grounds for mosquitoes ...

Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

Floodwater across outback Queensland is receding but mosquitoes and sandflies carrying a potentially fatal disease are ...

Vector control officials are warning that swimming pools in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades could turn into breeding ...

An automated device that can efficiently separate male and female mosquitoes has been developed by a research team. This engineering breakthrough in the biological control of mosquito-borne ...

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the ...

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, issued an urgent alert about dengue fever, a painful and ...