Las Vegas is experiencing a significant increase in mosquitoes, including those species capable of spreading West Nile virus and dengue. Ur...

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, known for spreading diseases, exhibit remarkable adaptability by using heat detection when their sense of smell i...

Health authorities commonly fog mosquito-infested areas with clouds of insecticide, and resistance has long been a concern, but the scale o...

Zika virus, dengue and chikungunya are spread by the bite of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.

For the first time, scientists have used the gene-editing tool Crispr-Cas9 to render humans effectively invisible in the eyes of Aedes aegy...

Zika was also detected in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in July 2017. The World Health Organization has said no vaccine is likely...

San Francisco, July 23 (IANS) Google's parent company Alphabet and scientists in the US have teamed up to release 20 million machine-raised...

As part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed here between ICMR and Monash University, the efficacy of the disease-control method will be...

Aedes aegypti apparently survives colder winters in Washington DC by entering sewers, which it does not do in other habitats.

Last year BMC had served notices to the Anil Kapoor & singer Amit Kishore Ganguli for the same reason.

Key factors that can combine to produce a Zika virus outbreak are expected to be present in 50 US cities during peak summer months, a new s...

Studies show that when a mosquito bites an infected person, the ability of the virus to spread throughout the Wolbachia-infected insect's t...

The device repels mosquitoes by releasing a vapour form of insecticide through a battery-powered fan, forming an insecticide "cloud".

Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits the dengue virus to humans, breeds in clean water and the showers might lead to water accumulation.

Dengue is a viral infection spread between humans by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Dengue causes flu-like symptoms, including intense headaches...

Some of the female mosquitoes that spread dengue & yellow fever transitioned from animal-biting insects into deadly vectors of human diseas...

The very sound of mosquitoes buzzing round in the vicinity sends people scurrying for all sorts of repellents.