When a mosquito pierces your skin, it does more than cause a fleeting moment of discomfort—it sets off a chain reaction within your body.

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A fly bite typically looks like a red welt, and "it often has a little center core to it," Kassouf says. "It can look a lot like a bad mosquito bite." Again, the other symptoms you might ...

Scratching an itch can bring a contradictory wave of pleasure and misery. A mouse study on scratching, reported in the Jan. 31 Science, fleshes out this ...

And bad news for mosquito magnets: The bloodsuckers stay ... you're going to be the one at the picnic getting all the bites," said study author Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller ...

Up to 30 percent of mosquito bites with the potential to deliver malaria occur indoors during the day when typical control strategies aren’t used, research published yesterday (May 16) in PNAS finds.