Biological scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope ...

A clinical trial supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is testing an experimental treatment designed to help ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

Female mosquitoes are targeted because only they bite and drink blood, thereby spreading diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. Scientist Sam Beach from Australia's Macquarie University said ...

Using computer models, the team predicts that applying TMT to an aggressive mosquito species primarily responsible for transmitting dengue and zika, could reduce blood-feeding rates by 40 to 60%.

or in other words allowed mosquitoes — which are vectors for a whole range of diseases including dengue, malaria, chikungunya and Zika — to thrive in new neighborhoods.

MSP authorities, however, ruled out that the current invasion of mosquitoes in Montevideo featured the aedes aegypti variety, which transmits dengue, zika, and chikungunya. “They are aedes ...

An elderly Townsville man has been hospitalised with dengue fever, marking the region's first breakthrough case of the mosquito-borne virus in five years. There have been just four cases of ...