mosquitoes

It was 3 a.m. on Feb. 6 when the dengue field hospital in Brasília temporarily shut its doors. The g...

About a decade ago, a new kind of mosquito began showing up in African cities. Native to Asia, Anoph...

Bzzzz... Do you hear that? That's the sound of a mosquito nearby, its wings fluttering rapidly, gene...

Mosquitoes carry malaria, which kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. Now some researcher...

In the 1950s, the U.S. declared that it had wiped out malaria. As NPR reported a few years ago, this...

LIMA, Peru – For Lorena Vigo, getting dengue, the virus once known as "breakbone fever," was like no...

MIAMI — There's not a lot of love for mosquitoes in Florida. The pesky insects are unrelenting. Now ...

It's early morning in banana farm country in the lowlands of western Guatemala, about 10 miles from ...

One Seattle morning, Carolina Reid sat in a room with nine other volunteers, each waiting to take pa...

A new study published in Thursday's edition of Cell reports that a mosquito's sense of smell is more...