According to Fumakilla, the peskiest mosquito species on Japan’s main island of Honshu is the “Aedes albopictus.” The critters are more active when temperatures range between 25 and 30 ...

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, issued an urgent alert about dengue fever, a painful and ...

Because the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes live near and prefer to feed on people, they are more likely to spread viral diseases than are the Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. Culex mosquitoes are distributed ...

The Florida Department of Health is once again tracking above-average numbers of travel-related cases of the mosquito-borne ...

Health department issues alert on chikungunya outbreak in Kerala following epidemic in Reunion Islands, with high mosquito concentration.

It’s caused by the dengue virus, which is transmitted by infected female mosquitoes - Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. To control the outbreak, researchers are working on identifying the eggs ...

Mosquito feeding activity was monitored in an electronic apparatus (visualometer), having ten ports, illuminated from below with narrow bandwidths of light (700, 650, 600, 550, 500, 450, 400, or 350 ...

The dengue virus is transmitted to humans via the bite of an infected mosquito. Only a few mosquito species are vectors for the dengue virus. What is a vector? A vector is a vehicle that carries ...

The two types of mosquitoes that most often infect humans with dengue, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, thrive in the warm, moist conditions made more prevalent by rising atmospheric ...

He called for immediate vector control as the dengue mosquitoes contribute to deadly dengue and the debilitating ...