Mosquito control officials in the Florida Keys are waiting for the federal government to sign off on an experiment that would release hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce the risk of dengue fever in the tourist town of K... [Full Article]
ATHENS (Reuters) - Just when it seems things couldn't get any worse for Greece, the exhausted and indebted country has a new threat to deal with: mosquito-borne diseases. Species of the blood-sucking insects that can carry exotic-sounding tropic... [Full Article]
The climate in northwestern Europe and the Balkans is becoming suitable for the Asian tiger mosquito, a disease-spreading invasive species, scientists said on Wednesday. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Homeless Typhoon Washi survivors sleep inside a mosquito net as they seek temporary shelter at a gym turned into an evacuation center in the southern Philippines city of Cagayan de Oro on Mindanao island December 30, 2011. The death in th... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Worker Solomon Conteh dissects a mosquito at Sanaria Inc. facility in Rockville, Maryland, October 26, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Young/Files... [Full Article]
(AFP/USDA-HO/File) - A mosquito is bloated with blood as it inserts its stinger into human flesh in this undated photo released by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In the biggest lab breakthrough against malaria in years, scientist... [Full Article]
(News) - Photomicrograph of a mosquito from the Culex genus. This image shows the whole body of an adult male. The sample is from a microscope slide created in the middle of the 20th century.
(AFP/File) - Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, also known as the 'dengue mosquito,' are shown here in a laboratory in 2010. Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever, in a landmark trial slammed Wedne... [Full Article]