Phillip Reese, KFF Health News As summer ushers in peak mosquito season, health and vector control officials are bracing for the possibility of another year of historic rates of dengue. And with ...

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on the planet, and some of them may be on the rise. At least in listener Abigail ...

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on the planet, and some of them may be on the rise. At least in listener Abigail Krich-Starr's area, that's due to warmer, wetter weather — which, yes, is ...

Climate change is causing changes in climate variability that is impacting the vector insect species. Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, professor in the department of environmental sciences at Emory ...

The threats of vector-borne diseases, which are transmitted to humans by other organisms like mosquitoes or ticks, are being exacerbated by climate change. How can these threats be addressed?

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If Island Pharma’s drug keeps delivering, it could fast-track approval. And in a world with millions of dengue cases a year, ...

A mosquito borne virus that causes mass livestock abortions has killed hundreds of people in East Africa—and climate change is accelerating its spread. Frank Burkybile reports on the growing threat of ...

Climate change is causing changes in climate variability that is impacting the vector insect species. Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, professor in the department of environmental sciences at Emory ...