A warm winter and increasing temperatures this spring mean mosquitoes are emerging early and in greater numbers. Experts say they're keeping a close eye on this, because mosquitos carry disease.

Undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me the note "Four minutes is too long" along with photos of countless mosquito bites on his bare ...

An unprecedented outbreak of dengue fever grew after the torrential rains of a cyclone and El Niño. This year’s building El ...

A new study maps how mosquitoes fly when hunting humans, showing how visual and chemical cues guide their every move.

In a proof-of-concept study, researchers tested a novel approach to mitigate deadly bat-borne viruses from jumping into ...

Mosquitoes typically spread disease, rather than prevent it, but Chinese scientists have proposed using the insects as an unlikely vector to deliver vaccines to bats. In a study published in Science ...

A unique infectious disease prevention strategy has emerged that uses mosquitoes to deliver vaccines to bats. The method ...

Diseases historically absent from the United States have been showing up in Florida, Texas, California and other U.S. states ...

“These cold-blooded insects are going to just kind of be waking up from their long winter’s nap, but the rain is going to be a trigger,” Jim Fredericks, senior vice president of public affairs at the ...

Mosquitoes not only cause nuisance but can also carry a number of diseases like Dengue, Malaria, and Chikungunya. Even though ...