Mosquitoes

Carrying babies in cloth treated with insecticide reduces malaria cases

The six-month study conducted in regions of Uganda where malaria is endemic included 400 mothers and their babies, ages 6 months to 18 months.

Mosquito bite, illustration.
Fossil of 99 million year old mosquito larva found in Myanmar amber.

Fossil of 99 million year old mosquito larva found in Myanmar amber

A worker fumigates a park during a mosquito control sequence ordered by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) as part of a vector control operation in Nice while the establishment of the tiger mosquito in metropolitan departments is worrying the French authorities, who fear an increased spread of chikung

New York confirms first locally acquired Chikungunya case in US since 2019

Mosquito bite, illustration.

Chikungunya resurfaces in U.S. after 6-year lull, CDC confirms local infection


Scientists map out mosquito immune system to help fight malaria

Malaria affects more than 200 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 405,000 people in 2018 - most of them babies and children under five years old.

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Mosquitoes infected with West Nile found in Israel twice in one month

The West Nile virus has the potential to cause an infection in the brain, which can result in severe outcomes such as paralysis or fatality.

A Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito is seen on the skin of a human host in this 2014 picture from the Center for Disease Control. C. quinquefasciatus is known as one of the many arthropodal vectors responsible for spreading the arboviral encephalitis, West Nile virus (WNV) to human beings through thei

Genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida and Texas

The mosquitoes released will all be male, which do not bite people and as such pose no risk to humans.

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