Finding the right taste to send mosquitoes packing could save hundreds of thousands of lives. (Photo by Егор Камелев on Unsplash) Mosquitoes are the most ...

There are nearly 200 types of mosquitoes in the U.S., but only one of them has been making headlines for transmitting Zika virus more frequently than any of the others have so far. The Aedes aegypti ...

People living in areas with infected male mosquitoes saw their dengue risk drop 71% ...

Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus affecting millions of people each year, with symptoms ranging from flu-like illness to ...

It was believed that the Aedes mosquito, which carries dengue virus, only bites during the early morning and before dusk when the lighting conditions are neither fully dark nor completely bright.

Mosquito-borne viruses, like dengue and chikungunya, tend to come in seasonal waves, flaring up in the summer or wet seasons, and fading in the winter or dry seasons. Zika is expected to behave ...

After the virus itself, the main villain of the Zika outbreak has been the Aedes aegypti mosquito, its primary vector. These mosquitoes are sneaky, and resilient, as my colleague Adrienne LaFrance ...

Have you experienced an unusual number of mosquito bites this summer? Have they landed mostly below the knee and especially around your ankles? And did the six-legged perpetrator fly off unnoticed, ...

A non-native mosquito capable of spreading diseases and hasn't been seen in Alameda County for a decade has been found in a Pleasanton neighborhood, county officials said Thursday. Residents are being ...

The Zika virus has spread like wildfire across South America, tip-toeing into the United States and into our nightmares. It’s not new. The virus was first discovered in Uganda’s Zika forest in 1947.