Upon detecting a foreign substance, the immune system of the host releases histamine and cytokines, substances that cause the itching and wheals associated with mosquito bites. The Aedes mosquitoes ...

so they bite humans. Each female mosquito can lay multiple batches of eggs during its lifetime, and often Aedes aegypti take several blood meals before laying a batch of eggs. When a female ...

A creative layout featuring a photo of an Aedes mosquito, which can transmit the dengue virus, and cryoelectron microscopy renderings of mature dengue virus particles. Groups of dengue virus particles ...

Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the disease further, new research shows.

Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the ...

When a mosquito pierces your skin, it does more than cause a fleeting moment of discomfort—it sets off a chain reaction ...

Mosquitoes can survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain why rates of mosquito-borne illness don't always decline in dry periods. Mosquitoes can survive prolonged ...

Dengue is a viral infection that gets transmitted to humans when an infected mosquito bites them ... a viral disease spread by mosquitoes like Aedes aegypti, causes high fever, severe headache ...

“Aedes aegypti is very much a backyard breeding mosquito,” Raman said. “And it’s the kind of mosquito that bites people in the daytime and around the ankles, and they’re very aggressive.

Zika transmission has been reported in more than 90 countries as the spread of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the ...