Outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease chikungunya appear to be driven by infections centered in and around the home, with women significantly more likely to become ill, suggests new research from the...

Mosquito saliva influences transmission of viruses to a bitten mammalian host. For example, it contains factors that dampen the host immune response and so facilitate infection. A study published in PLOS...

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced Friday that it has detected Zika in one mosquito sample from the same small area in Miami Beach, where four other samples had previously...

Miami, FL Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez said Friday, after learning of the four locally acquired Zika virus cases reported in South Florida, that he was confident that Miami-Dade County is prepared to fight...

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) began a collaborative mosquito surveillance project with Oklahoma State University (OSU) entomologists this Spring to detect the possible presence of Aedes...

In collaboration with colleagues from Mexico, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers were the first to directly connect the Aedes aegypti mosquito with Zika transmission in the Americas,...

Recently, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said the only two places in the Americas that didn’t have the vector of Zika, dengue and chikungunya–Aedes aegypti–was Canada and...

Key factors that can combine to produce a Zika virus outbreak are expected to be present in a number of U.S. cities during peak summer months, new research shows. The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is spreading...

Mike Coston is the Owner/Editor of Avian Flu Diary The accepted wisdom today is that the Aedes Aegypti mosquito (and very likely the Aedes Albopictus) are the two primary mosquito vectors for Zika, Dengue...

Brazil is pulling out the big guns in the battle against the Aedes mosquito and the viruses it may transmit, including dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika. Brazil’s health minister, Marcelo Castro...