The water is a toxic cocktail of sewage and chemicals. From flesh-eating bacteria to cholera, here are the life-threatening dangers lurking beneath the surface ...

A complex suite of factors go into whether a mosquito chooses to bite you or the person next to you. Many people point to the idea that it comes down to blood type, but the science is more complicated ...

Chinese scientists have developed vaccine-carrying mosquitoes to bite and immunise bats against rabies, a new strategy that could help deter the jumping of pandemic-potential viruses from animals to ...

The Ministry of Health has already announced an ongoing flu outbreak associated with the long rainy season. But waterborne and vector-borne diseases pose an even greater threat. Aggrey Aluso, Director ...

You are enjoying a warm summer evening outdoors, and you feel the familiar, itchy pinch of a mosquito bite.

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

But scientists say there are practical and ethical challenges to overcome before the strategy could be deployed in real-world settings.

Some folks may take a fill-it-and-forget-it approach to birdbaths. Birds are used to a little muck, right? Actually, changing ...

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A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

Alhaji Oladotun Odunaye retired at the directorate level from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 2016, after decades of service in Ogun and Edo states and electoral assignments in ...

In the rapidly disappearing Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes are adapting to a human-dominated landscape. Scientists found that many species now prefer feeding on people rather than the forest’s diverse ...