As spring settles in, Suffolk is ramping up efforts to protect residents from the seasonal surge in mosquito activity. To ...

Despite a chilly start to the week, warmer weather is on the way and that means more people will be getting outside. That also means we’re not far away from mosquito and tick season.

But in Florida, this expertise and innovation doesn’t just stay in the classroom or laboratory. They are deployed in all 67 counties to control mosquitoes, keep residents and visitors safe, and ensure ...

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Health officials have warned people in recently flooded areas of the country to protect against mosquito-borne diseases after a new case of Japanese encephalitis was detected in New South Wales.

The potentially deadly Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) has been found in mosquitoes in Brisbane for the first time. The department is concerned the risk of human exposure to Queenslanders may ...

Cypriot professor Giorgos Christophides, an expert in infectious diseases at Imperial College, stated that it may take years before genetically modified mosquitoes are released into the wild.

Scientists are genetically modifying mosquitoes in the hope of stopping the spread of malaria. The technique, which uses genes taken from the honeybee and the African clawed frog, blocks normal ...

Transmission Zero, a research team from Imperial College London in partnership with the Ifakara Health Institute and the National Institute of Medical Research in Tanzania, has developed genetic ...