Of particular concern is eastern equine encephalitis, a rare disease that can lead to serious and fatal illness, caused by mosquitoes carrying the virus. Known as EEE or “triple E,” the virus ...

A Connecticut father died Monday — five years after he was bitten by an infected mosquito while clearing brush in his wooded backyard. Richard Pawulski, 49, was killed from complications of ...

With the arrival in California of dengue, a dangerous mosquito-borne disease present mainly in more tropical climates, public ...

A mosquito can then act as a vector, or carrier, for a number of diseases and transmit them to humans. By definition, a sexually transmitted infection (STI) is a microorganism, such as a virus ...

PENOBSCOT COUNTY, Maine — A person from Penobscot County has tested presumptive positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE).

Hospitals in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, are brimming with chikungunya virus patients. Major government hospitals ...

There's personality, appearance, seduction, all manner of physical and social cues. Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair. And all it takes to woo a male is the ...

Researchers from Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) have helped develop a model that uses mosquito species and their population data to provide an overview of the average July air temperature ...

A Mosquito plague has descended on southwest Sydney after an outbreak of larvae was detected at a water recycling plant with ...

Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun described the outbreak of Mosquitoes as “very serious ... to “very bad diseases” like the Ross River virus. Swarms of Mosquitoes (black dots) are plaguing ...