Moore also tells us the Grand River Mosquito Control District is planning an urban treatment program if the spread of the ...

This day-biting mosquito species, also known as the Aedes aegypti, is capable of transmitting Zika, dengue fever, Chikungunya ...

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 ...

Here’s a look at Zika virus, an illness spread through mosquito bites that can cause birth defects and other neurological defects. Facts Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...

By 1881 Finlay had fixed on mosquitoes as the cause, but his theory was largely dismissed. After the Spanish-American War of 1898, during which far more U.S. troops died from yellow fever than ...

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 ...

Mosquito-borne diseases such as yellow fever, Zika, Dengue fever, and malaria kill millions of humans every year, and there are limited therapeutics for their prevention and treatment. While in ...