Aedes aegypti, or the "yellow fever" mosquito, is spreading in California, said health officials. Other states have reported a growing population.

The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the ...

Mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue, Zika, and yellow fever, continue to pose a significant global health threat, ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by ...

The Aedes aegypti mosquito, also known as the Yellow Fever Mosquito, has been confirmed in both Sutter and Yuba Counties, signaling a continued northward progression of the invasive species in ...

Alligator Alcatraz is causing light pollution in one of the first designated "dark skies" in the eastern United States.

In a victory for public health and the environment, the British biotech firm Oxitec and CSIRO have withdrawn their application to commercially release millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes ...

(CALIFORNIA) -- Populations of an invasive species of disease-carrying mosquitoes are continuing to spread throughout Northern California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, according to health ...