"If Aedes aegypti becomes established in Alameda County, it can threaten public health and diminish quality of life," the ...

As international headlines focus on a fast-moving chikungunya outbreak in southern China that has sickened thousands, Florida ...

Researchers in a lab at Stanford University are focused on a tiny predator that has an enormous, and sometimes deadly impact ...

Health officials have confirmed the first locally acquired case of dengue fever this year in Hillsborough County.

Mainland France recorded its earliest-ever local chikungunya outbreaks in May 2025, with 10 clusters (27 cases) across five ...

There are nearly 200 types of mosquitoes in the U.S., but one of them -- Aedes aegypti -- has been making headlines for transmitting Zika virus more frequently than any of the others have so far.

The study found that the Aedes mosquito can survive equally well at 95.83 percent in rainwater, brackish water, seawater, and drain water, with a slightly lower survival of 92 percent in sewer water.

The UK's Health Security Agency has advised overseas travelers to take precautions to avoid contracting the potentially ...

Officials in the East Bay urged residents to take precautions after the invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito was recently found at ...

BRITS travelling abroad must take extra precautions against a rise in ‘suitcase viruses’, as “intense transmission of ...

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus causing fever, severe joint pain, rash, and muscle aches, mainly ...

So both Aedes aegypti, Zika’s Most Wanted, and Aedes albopictus, the sidekick, are seriously hard to fight. And Congress hasn’t funded that fight, which puts the U.S. at a disadvantage.