Once mosquitoes acquire a new food source, they tend to develop a preference for that particular blood—and humans are one ...

Researchers in Kenya have identified two low-cost solutions that tackle the twin challenges of rising temperatures and malaria transmission.

One long-standing idea was that mosquitoes avoid people with sickle cell trait (those who carry one sickle cell gene but do not have sickle cell disease). If mosquitoes bite them less often, they ...

Scientists are taking a multipronged approach to tackle this dangerous carrier of dengue, yellow fever and other noxious ...

The ‘mosquito factory’ breeding genetically-engineered insects to fight malaria - IN FOCUS: Malaria cases have skyrocketed in Djibouti in recent years. Rachel Schraer reports on a British company help ...

Some mosquito species, like the Culiseta Inornata, are more active during colder winter months. Not all mosquitoes hibernate. Some species can become active during winter if there are several warm ...

A genetic technology known as a gene drive could help prevent malaria by spreading genes in wild mosquitoes that stop them transmitting the parasite. Tests in a lab in Tanzania have now confirmed that ...

More than half a million people, the vast majority being children under the age of 5, die annually due to malaria, with Sub-Saharan Africa as the most highly burdened region. Mosquitoes belonging to ...

On its own, LATE dementia is less severe than Alzheimer’s, but in combination, it makes Alzheimer’s symptoms worse, scientists say. Doctors told Ray Hester he was in the beginning stages of ...

‎Diaspora Solution Group Nigeria (DSGN) is set to launch a groundbreaking malaria attenuation project entitled: “Research to curb female anopheles mosquito breeding.” ‎It is billed for December 20, ...