The dengue virus is transmitted to humans via the bite of an infected mosquito. Only a few mosquito species are vectors for the dengue virus. What is a vector? A vector is a vehicle that carries and ...

Mosquitoes are infecting people across the Americas with dengue at historic levels and U.S. travelers are bringing the potentially life-threatening virus home with them. The alarming rise in ...

Climate change is exacerbating the risk of potentially dangerous mosquito-borne diseases in California. Dengue, the world’s most common mosquito-borne illness, is not transmitted directly from insect ...

Two more cases of the mosquito-borne dengue virus have been identified in Baldwin Park, bringing to five the recent total concentrated in the area and raising concerns of a “small local outbreak” of ...

Augusto Cesar, a city worker who combats endemic diseases, pours larvicide down a home's drain where mosquitoes can breed, to help eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito which can spread dengue, in the ...

The Florida Department of Health has announced that a recently diagnosed case of dengue fever was acquired by a patient locally from a mosquito carrying the virus in Palm Beach County. The previous 13 ...

Orange County Mosquito Control crews are "focusing on eliminating the breed of mosquito" known to carry dengue after two cases were reported in Orange County. The two cases were contracted locally, ...

In the Americas alone, almost 10.4 million suspected cases of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease, were reported to the World Health Organization in 2024 as of the first week of July, an increase ...

Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus affecting millions of people each year, with symptoms ranging from flu-like illness to severe bleeding and organ failure. Scientists are now using Wolbachia, a ...