In the past year alone, 61 new cases were recorded, 30 of them fatal. International health organization sends out alert after ...

At the dawn of the 20th century, a U.S. Army Yellow Fever Board stationed in Cuba, headed by Major Walter Reed, confirmed a theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay about the role of mosquitoes in ...

A potential mosquito problem is looming in Altadena after the Eaton Fire left behind thousands of massive breeding sites for ...

‘Most important emerging’ mosquito-transmitted threat In addition ... such as dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika virus. Raman explained why the district is concerned about dengue ...

The genetic engineering technique has been used before to control populations of mosquitoes that carry Zika and yellow fever. After decades of decline, malaria deaths are on the rise, and experts ...

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There are four types of dengue virus, and they belong to a class of viruses known as flaviviruses – the family that also includes the West Nile, yellow fever, and Zika viruses. Dengue, transmitted ...

Yellow fever remains a terrible worry, as do dengue, chikungunya, and Mayaro, a mosquito-spread monkey virus infecting people in northwestern Brazil. Defensive strategies under consideration range ...

Only one month before, one of the board members who conducted many of the tests involving infected mosquitoes, Jesse Lazear, died from yellow fever. Determined to prove the mosquito theory ...