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Singapore officials went door-to-door Monday to wipe out mosquitoes after the discovery of 41 locally transmitted cases of Zika virus.

• 29 августа 2016, 14:14

Workers are making an unusual product: genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever at Oxitec.

• 27 августа 2014, 14:37

The mosquito-born chikungunya virus is spreading into Central America, health authorities there say, after outbreaks in several Caribbean nations.

• 21 июня 2014, 13:25

Population of mosquitoes in and around Atyrau has increased significantly making the mosquito problem more tangible then ever.

• 26 мая 2014, 01:22

Anopheles claviger, a malaria mosquito species uncommon for Kazakhstan, has been spotted in the wetlands near Astana.

• 12 мая 2014, 14:46

Complex genetic interaction between the mosquito and the virus that causes dengue fever lie at the spread of this dangerous disease.

• 02 августа 2013, 10:01

A prototype vaccine for dengue notched up the best success yet against the disease but failed to protect against all its viral strains.

• 11 сентября 2012, 12:46

The US is experiencing the worst outbreak of West Nile virus since the mosquito-borne disease was first detected in 1999, health officials said Wednesday.

• 25 августа 2012, 13:17

Behind air-tight doors in a lab in a southern French city, scientists in protective coveralls wage war against a fingernail-sized danger.

• 13 августа 2012, 18:58

Brazil will breed huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes to help stop the spread of dengue fever, an illness that has already struck nearly 500,000 people this year nationwide.

• 11 июля 2012, 10:23