Places where tropical diseases are now unknown—Canada and parts of Northern Europe, for instance—are due to become prime real estate for mosquitoes.
A new discovery could make mosquitoes feel more full—and safer to be around.
New research in Brazil suggests that people with immunity to the dengue virus may have reduced risk of Zika.
Scientists thought mosquitoes didn't have what it takes to hear over long distances. They were wrong, new research suggests.
Targeting newly discovered proteins key to the malaria parasite's life cycle could offer another weapon in the fight against the disease.
A past dengue virus infection could keep children safe from developing symptomatic Zika disease, researchers report.
"There's been a big focus on mosquito behavior. But you have to look at mosquitoes and people together to really understand what is going on..."
In the fight against mosquitoes and the diseases they spread, researchers may have discovered a way to keep them from reproducing.
A 3D look at how a virus travels through a mosquito's body could help keep all sorts of diseases from spreading from bug to human.
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can carry deadly viruses and bite with abandon, but piecemeal genetic info has stymied research. New analysis changes that.
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