Geneva, Switzerland (AFP)-The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday a major chikungunya virus epidemic risks sweeping around the globe, calling for urgent action to prevent it. The WHO said it ...

The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory on Tuesday following a small number of recent ...

Fulton County health officials have confirmed two new cases of West Nile virus found in mosquito traps around the county.

California offers a case study in how dengue is spreading in the U.S. The Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes that transmit dengue weren’t known to be in the state 25 years ago. They are now ...

Plus, “If [an Aedes albopictus mosquito] happens to pick up Zika from a human, that mosquito is much more likely to then bite something other than a human and the virus will not survive in those ...

Los Angeles County is home to two particularly troubling types of invasive Aedes mosquitoes. Aedes albopictus, also known as the Asian Tiger mosquito, arrived first, having hitched a ride with ...

Oxford University Press and the Entomological Society of America have released a special collection of free articles on the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus).

An Aedes albopictus, or Asian tiger mosquito, seen in an undated photo. The invasive mosquito species was recently found for the first time in Sacramento County, local mosquito control officials ...

Zika RNA has now been found in Aedes albopictus. That’s not the species -- known as Aedes aegypti -- most often associated with Zika. But scientists have never discounted Aedes albopictus as ...

Now, the mosquito is being found across the county with many other residents reporting bitings to the county's mosquito hotline. The Aedes albopictus, also known as the Asian tiger mosquito, has ...

The CDC says the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the main species that carries Zika, could extend into Connecticut this summer. But Armstrong is more concerned about another species: Aedes albopictus ...

The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is “the most prevalent species across the state, particularly in large urban areas,” according to Michael Waldvogel of N.C. State.