In many regions of the US mosquito season has gotten longer, which researcher say poses a risk of disease outbreak ...

The lab-raised, non-biting male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the invasive ones on the islands and produce sterile eggs ...

Mosquitoes have long been among humanity’s most formidable adversaries, plaguing us for thousands of years and causing more ...

In a global study, scientists have uncovered far greater diversity and flexibility in mosquito feeding patterns than ...

Stephanie, thank you so much for joining us. As we just mentioned, humans, we're winning the war against malaria, against mosquito borne diseases for so long. But you write in this series that now ...

There's something about us that mosquitoes just love. In addition to our smell, and our breath, our exposed skin acts as a kind of neon sign advertising that this blood bar is open for business.

The diseases spread by mosquitoes can be caused by a parasite, as in the case of malaria, or by viruses, as is the case for Zika fever and numerous others. Some of these agents, like the parasite that ...

One of the ways to do so is to control the mosquito population. Malaria is a vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium and transmitted to humans through the bite of the Anopheles ...

He says there are so many species of mosquitoes, targeting the mosquitoes that do harm to humans and spread disease would not be a huge disruption to the balance of the ecosystem. There are ...

IN TODAY’S MEDICAL ALERT, IT IS WORLD MOSQUITO DAY. THE INSECTS AREN’T JUST ANNOYING. THEY KILL MORE HUMANS THAN ANY OTHER CREATURE IN THE WORLD BY INFECTING THEM WITH DISEASES LIKE MALARIA ...

Mosquitoes do a superb job of spreading diseases like malaria – now researchers have shown it's possible to hijack these pests and distribute vaccines via mosquito bite. In human trials, these ...

If a mosquito bites an animal or human that has a certain disease, the infected blood goes into the mosquito’s body. The infected mosquito can then spread that disease to the next animal or ...