When a mosquito pierces your skin, it does more than cause a fleeting moment of discomfort—it sets off a chain reaction ...

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators in Uganda at the Makerere University School of Medicine have uncovered a significant connection between elevated uric acid ...

In the heart of Benin City, the capital of Edo State, lies the Ikpoba Slope community, a neighourhood affected by ...

I was about ten years old when a horse fly bit me. I was on a camping trip. I saw the giant fly land on my leg. It went to ...

Researchers have uncovered a significant connection between elevated uric acid levels and life-threatening outcomes in children with severe malaria.

How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes. In a new study, University of Iowa ...

Much of this depends on climate patterns. “The warmer it is, the more pests will thrive and the more populations we’ll see,” ...

ShareMosquitoes can survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain how their populations quickly rebound when it finally rains, biologists at the University of Cincinnati (UC) ...

The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) discovered 23 blood-sucking fly species in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with 13 previously unreported. These flies can transmit the Blue Tongue Disease virus, ...

People are to be sent from Oxford to the Netherlands to be deliberately infected with a form of malaria so scientists can study its effects. Plasmodium vivax is a type of malaria that can remain ...

Discover how mosquitoes adapt to droughts by biting more frequently to stay hydrated, increasing disease spread.