Forests – with their dense canopies and humid weather – are hotspots for malaria breeding and transmission in India.

Mosquitoes are annoying, right? But some can carry serious illnesses like malaria and dengue. Both diseases cause fever and make you feel really sick, but they are different. Knowing how they ...

Researchers are already working to refine and carefully test engineered gene drive technologies for malaria elimination.

Here it comes again: mosquito season. In Texas, that seems to last almost all year! Nobody loves mosquitos, and most consider ...

Panaji: With unseasonal showers expected ahead of the monsoon, the directorate of health services has sent out detailed ...

It is best to reduce outdoor activities at night when mosquitoes are most active. The Disease Control Agency noted, "Malaria-carrying mosquitoes prefer dark colors, so it is advisable to wear ...

The extent of Scotland's mosquito population is being understood thanks to a successful citizen science project.

Malaria is spread via the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito carrying the parasite Plasmodium. Dengue Virus (DENV), which causes Dengue, is primarily spread during the day by Aedes mosquitos.

Cairns was declared "essentially dengue-free" but has now recorded its first locally-transmitted case of the mosquito-borne ...

The first thing I pack when I head off to Malawi for work or Greece for my holidays is mosquito repellent. I am allergic to the little horrorsnote-0.

Despite recent medical advances, malaria still kills a child every ... A Glasgow University study to assess the risk of mosquitoes carrying deadly diseases ever reaching Scotland shows that ...

Over time, this could drastically reduce the population of malaria-carrying mosquitoes and, with it, malaria transmission. Excellent scientists, biologists and or mosquito-specialists, recognised ...