The successful transmission of dengue virus from a human host to a mosquito vector requires a complex set of factors to align. It is becoming increasingly important to improve our understanding of the ...

For people with a mosquito bite allergy, also known as "skeeter syndrome," symptoms are more severe than the itchy red bump of a mosquito bite. They can include a rash, large areas of excessive ...

Diagram showing how the dengue virus captures plasmin using its envelope protein. The hijacked plasmin is used to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut to allow the dengue virus to ...

The dengue virus is transmitted to humans through mosquito bites. Once ingested in a blood meal, the virus needs to pass through the mosquito midgut to infect the salivary glands before being ...

During the day, Mosquito Bay is nothing special as Caribbean beaches go. At night, the waters emit a blue glow from organisms called dinoflagellates that live in the waters and light up when ...

Mosquito-borne virus cases almost tripled across Queensland in 2024 amid surges in cases of Ross River virus and potentially deadly dengue fever. Queensland Health recorded 3,225 cases ...

In a recent study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers assessed the competence of mosquitoes as vectors for the Oropouche virus (OROV) in the United States.

Its CEO Adar Poonawalla spoke to NDTV on a range of issues, key among them the vaccine for malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in ...

Mosquitoes have the same gene and a similar courtship ritual, meaning that canceling the gene could in theory control mosquito population growth. How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting ...

Except when those come in the form of insect bite marks or, even worse, a mosquito-borne disease. Having experienced the former on almost every holiday to date and the latter (alongside an ...