"These drone and mosquito suppression advancements have come just in time." Experts deploy mosquito-delivering drones for ...

How human-biting mosquitoes track us isn’t known, but it matters, since they carry diseases such as Zika, dengue, West Nile virus and malaria. Understanding how mosquitoes sniff us out so more ...

Mosquito-borne diseases kill more than 700,000 people every year, according to the World Health Organization, and the ...

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes like this one specialize in biting humans and are the primary vectors for diseases including dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever.With the help of international ...

Most mosquitoes don’t carry disease. Those that do are called vectors. Vectors spread diseases such as West Nile virus, EEE, dengue fever, malaria and chikungunya in humans.

Vaccines are available to prevent illness in horses, but the only protection for humans is to prevent mosquito bites. AgriLife reports that mosquitoes tend to feed at dusk and throughout the night, ...

Three dead birds in Sacramento County were found to have contracted the virus as activity ramped up in Placer County.

Mosquito-borne diseases are those that are transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. The diseases spread by mosquitoes can be caused by a parasite, as in the case of malaria, or ...

There are about 3,500 species of mosquitoes around the world, but only a few are responsible for spreading infectious diseases to humans. Among those mosquitoes that are thirsty for human blood is ...

The finding may one day help us fight mosquito-borne diseases. By Lawrence Goodman Feb. 6, 2020 In a paper appearing online February 6 in Science , professor of biology Paul Garrity , PhD student ...

Following the discovery of West Nile virus in mosquitoes in Rolando late last month, county crews will conduct pesticide ...

Some humans are tastier than others — to mosquitoes, anyway. No surprise, say many of us humans, a long-held hunch confirmed by science. Chemical compounds on our skin attract the mosquitoes ...