Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, issued an urgent alert about dengue fever, a painful and sometimes deadly mosquito-borne illness common in tropical and subtropical ...

Mosquitoes have been transmitting the West Nile virus to humans in the United States for over 25 years, but we still don't ...

A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

The Japanese encephalitis virus, which is relatively new to Australia, poses a significant health risk to a naïve population.

Morphology is the study of the form and structure of organisms, including their physical characteristics such as shape, size ...

With a grant award from the American Mosquito Control Association Research Fund, Utah State University ecologist Norah ...

Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

IN its continued effort to eradicate lymphatic filariasis, Guyana has embarked on an ambitious two-year Mass Drug Administration (MDA) campaign under the ...

The Oropouche virus has been linked to Zika-like outcomes in pregnant people, with cases more than doubling in 2024 ...

Bug bites or other skin injuries can cause cellulitis, an infection of the deep layers of the skin typically caused by the group A Streptococcus bacteria (strep). Bug bites cause a break in the skin, ...