Evidence is mounting that climate change is bringing new disease threats to the UK. Kate Bowie reports Climate change is no longer a distant concern for health systems; it is already reshaping ...

West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne infection that can be fatal to humans, has been detected in the UK for the first time. The UK’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) said on 21 May it has identified ...

Iceland recorded its first verified population of mosquitoes. The cold-tolerant species Culiseta annulata survived Iceland’s ...

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The transmission of malaria by the Anopheles cruzii mosquito in the South and Southeast of Brazil was so alarming in the 1940s—with approximately 4,000 cases per 100,000 people—that the disease became ...

Genetic fragments of the West Nile virus (WNV) have been detected in mosquitoes in the UK for the first time during a national surveillance programme. The virus was identified in two samples of the ...