Infections by the viruses that cause #Zika and #Dengue fever alter how their hosts smell, making them more likely to be bitten by...

#China — a country that had 30 million cases of #malaria per year in the 1940s — is officially free of the disease. Among the innovations...

#Wolbachia #dengue #mosquitoes #Indonesia Dengue fever infections dropped dramatically in an Indonesian study where a bacteria was...

#CRISPR #mosquitoes #WestNile Since the onset of the CRISPR genetic editing revolution, scientists have been working to leverage the...

#malaria #mosquitoes #Plasmodium The hallmark of malaria, an infectious disease caused by parasites from the Plasmodium genus, is cyclic...

#Zika #dengue #chikungunya #yellowfever #climatechange As Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes increase their range because of warming #climate,...

The mosquito-borne arbovirus #Zika virus (ZIKV, Flavivirus, Flaviviridae), has caused an outbreak impressive by its magnitude and rapid...

Of the more than 3,000 species of #mosquitoes in the world, just a small number have evolved to specialize in sucking human blood. How...