Balloon sampling has now confirmed that mosquitoes migrating high above West Africa often carry transmissible pathogens, a finding that could reshape how we track and manage vector-borne diseases.

A bacterium that infects insects may provide a biological method for stunting the spread of a range of devastating human diseases. The bacteria may protect their hosts against disease-causing ...

Tovi Lehmann, facility head at the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke to students and faculty Sept. 19 about new findings ...

Recent research has revealed that mosquitoes may be able to transmit diseases across long distances by traveling via high-altitude strong winds, expanding their harmful impact on human health. A team ...

Scientists fed Aedes aegypti mosquitoes blood laced with weakened rabies and Nipah viruses, then let those insects bite bats ...

New Cleveland Clinic research shows how mosquito-transmitted viruses – like Zika, West Nile, Yellow Fever and dengue viruses – hijack host cells to promote their own replication and infection.

Mosquitoes have been found as far north as Shetland, according to a citizen science project which studied the insects. Scientists at the University of Glasgow received more than 700 reports of ...

A mosquito bite is usually just an itchy annoyance—but sometimes it can lead to serious illness. In addition to malaria, mosquitoes carry West Nile virus, which is the most common cause of ...