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.
When neighbors got together under scientists' direction, they reduced invasive mosquitoes in several Maryland neighborhoods by an average of 76 percent.
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