This year is shaping up to be a bad one for West Nile virus, a pathogen that has killed at least 2,300 ... high mosquito activity on a “particularly wet summer and changing climate”—both of which are ...

Warming temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are helping expand the range of heartworm-carrying mosquitoes and ...

A federally funded project aims to determine how West Nile virus cycles through mosquitoes and the animals they bite.

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is using computer models to simulate how climate change could expand ... dengue, West Nile virus, yellow fever, and Zika virus—all of which ...

Severe infection with West Nile virus is a spreading problem worldwide that disproportionately affects those over age 50. And evidence is mounting that when the virus causes sickness, the long ...

Mosquitoes can spread diseases such as West Nile Virus ... places where the virus is commonly spread, such as the Caribbean. However, warming temperatures driven by climate change in Southern ...

As for the UK, Sikkema posits that the detection of West Nile virus seems almost certain, yet similar climatic conditions might limit any immediate outbreak. Climate change has helped accelerate ...

The mosquito-borne disease has spread across the continent, killing five people in Spain and 12 others in Greece last year (Picture: Shutterstock/Zidan Basory) The deadly West Nile virus which has ...

John Roehrig ended up on the front lines of the U.S. response to West Nile virus. Roehrig's work on the virus is still one of the biggest chapters of his storied career as his family looks back on ...