Diseases such as West Nile virus and dengue are becoming increasingly common as the insects that spread them move north.

Viruses are master parasites that have adapted to infect many host species. Some viruses even use multiple hosts to spread ...

Some viruses, known as arboviruses, use insects to spread their infections to other hosts, such as humans and animals.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) looked at what might happen in nearly 1,000 major cities if temperatures remain on track ...

EXCLUSIVE: Professor Stephen Griffin, a professor of cancer virology at the University of Leeds, explained how there's ...

Caddo Parish offers free tools to residents to protect themselves from arboviruses like West Nile and keep the mosquito population under control. Kelvin Samuel, Assistant Director of Caddo Parish ...

Anita Saraf investigates mosquito saliva to understand how viruses like dengue and West Nile are transmitted, using mass ...

With a new two-year grant of $250,000 per year from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Bio and Agro-Defense ...

In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Fernando Abad-Franch and colleagues1 present the results of a study that used distributions in case data to assess the effect of mosquito-disseminated pyriproxyfen ...

The resident had not recently left the state, leading health officials to believe the disease was acquired locally for the ...

Longer and more frequent heatwaves, soaring demand for air conditioning and widespread disease: life in cities would become ...