Officials urged residents to take preventive measures. Health officials sound alarm over concerning discovery made during ...

New Zealand is home to a fascinating range of blood-feeding creatures.

Summer brings warmer temperatures and longer days, and of course that means spending more time outdoors. Unfortunately, it ...

Researchers review the ever-growing list of human viruses, examining their diversity, transmission pathways, and the urgent ...

For decades, Culex pipiens f. molestus was called the "London Underground Mosquito". Most people, including scientists, ...

A large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved ...

Study traces origin of mutant London underground mosquito to Middle East - The London Underground mosquito been extensively ...

Genetic analysis suggests a form of mosquito found in urban subway systems evolved in the Middle East thousands of years ago ...

Despite the constant presence of mosquitoes, the risk of disease transmission fluctuates throughout the year between high and low risk months.

Dhaka is facing an unprecedented mosquito crisis as Culex mosquitoes multiply at alarming rates, turning what was once a seasonal nuisance into a year-round public health emergency. Despite ...

A variety of mosquito once thought to have evolved in the tunnels of the London Underground seems to have originated alongside humans thousands of years ago in the Middle East, a genetic analysis ...

They are both maintained in an enzootic cycle involving birds and Culex spp mosquitoes. WNV has demonstrated its sensitivity ... which can present a subclinical seroconversion and serve as a sentinel ...