For the first time, thousands of live mosquitoes are being released in a Sacramento neighborhood to help prevent disease.

A warming world is pushing tropical infectious diseases northwards as pathogens thrive in hot and humid conditions ...

The innovative findings leave researchers hopeful. Scientists create incredible new weapon in fight against disease-carrying ...

Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them. Mosquitoes that spread diseases in the U.S. Most mosquitoes don’t carry disease. Those that do are called vectors.

Scientists at the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) have been tracking mosquito-borne diseases in wild birds, with results coming back all clear until 2020.

Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it could be a valuable new tool in the fight against disease.

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The Kew team are now hopeful their new approach could be used to screen plants in areas where mosquito-borne diseases are widespread, to help understand mosquito ecology and plant preference and ...

As diseases go, Zika virus was always considered minor league. It didn't make people all that sick; most infected people had no symptoms at all. Zika was confined to a relatively narrow belt that ...

Unlike other diseases a mosquito can transmit, HIV is unable to replicate in a mosquito’s gut. In humans, HIV uses a type of white blood cell known as CD4 cells to replicate.

New York has reported the state’s first death from Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a disease that spreads through bites from mosquitoes. An expert discusses the risks and means of prevention.

But the melanura mosquito doesn’t often bite mammals. A different mosquito species, Coquillettidia perturbans, is primarily responsible for most of the human cases of the disease reported in the US.