The Allegheny County Health Department plans to treat areas for mosquitoes where positive samples were found in the neighborhoods of Arlington, Beltzhoover, Carrick, Hazelwood, Knoxville, Mt. Oliver ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised alarm over the deadly mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, calling for action ...

Mosquitoes, a tiny but deadly fly species, is the ultimate killer of humans with between 725,000 and 1,000,000 deaths every ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 ...

A UCSD team has helped to develop a gene-editing method to prevent mosquitoes from spreading Malaria. It could be a game-changer for countries with ongoing outbreaks.

Mosquitoes are highly visual hunters when it comes to finding a human to bite. This means movement and dark clothing colors like black, navy and red can stand out to a mosquito. Research has shown ...

Researchers at USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are investigating the microbial communities carried by house flies ...

The newly developed system uses CRISPR-Cas9 “scissors” and a guide RNA to make a genetic cut at a precise location within the mosquito’s genome. It then replaces the unwanted amino acid that transmits ...

A new study reports on a novel way to short-circuit the parasite that spreads the disease so people wouldn't get infected with a mosquito's bite.