A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the ...

Technology originating in the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design uses AI to rapidly identify ...

(AP) - It’s the end of the line for perfect brackets on Yahoo Sports. Same with CBS Sports. With Michigan’s 91-79 win over Texas A&M on Saturday night, the final perfect Yahoo Sports bracket ...

Health experts raised the alarm this weekend as wet weather from ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred threatened to push up infection risk. (Getty) Auto news: Ford Ranger back on top as most popular new ...

A dad who was left bedbound for two weeks after he was bitten by a mosquito in Thailand, suffered nightmare complications including Tourette's syndrome. Ross Constable, from Greater Manchester ...

A dad has revealed how a seemingly harmless mosquito bite on holiday in Thailand led to him developing Tourette’s syndrome. Ross Constable was bitten while on a 10-day family trip to Phuket in ...

The potentially deadly Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) has been found in mosquitoes in Brisbane for the first time. The department is concerned the risk of human exposure to Queenslanders may ...

In a second critical step, researchers use another genetic technique to ensure that all offspring of genetically modified mosquitoes carry the same malaria-fighting trait.

Transmission Zero, a research team from Imperial College London in partnership with the Ifakara Health Institute and the National Institute of Medical Research in Tanzania, has developed genetic ...

A molecular quality-control system in Anopheles mosquitoes—the species responsible for most of the world’s malaria cases—is a promising target for future malaria-control strategies, according to a ...