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Dengue fever has infected millions of people worldwide, and cases are now being acquired locally in parts of Europe. Although most patients recover, the disease has a dangerous characteristic: serious ...

Analyzing 20 million recorded mosquito flight paths revealed the mathematical rules behind how these tiny predators move and zero in on their human targets.

Eastern equine encephalitis has now been confirmed in horses or humans in Texas, Massachusetts and New York. The deadly mosquito-borne illness eastern equine encephalitis has been confirmed in two ...

In January, Queensland recorded its first locally-acquired case of Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) since 2022, likely ...

Chicago's first West Nile virus death of 2026 follows the city's rainiest summer in years, as CDPH sprays insecticide across 15 community areas.

Warnings have been issued across the country after the confirmed presence of a deadly mosquito-borne virus in Victoria. Here’s what you need to know. For the first time in three years, the presence of ...

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Massachusetts has confirmed its second human case of the mosquito-borne illness Eastern equine encephalitis, state officials say. A second case of EEE in a horse was also reported in the state. The ...

As they say, the difference between medicine and poison is the dose. The difference between viral transmission and infection, it appears, has to do with the restraint found in the virus itself.