The West Nile virus poses a "serious" threat to Ukraine, one of Kyiv's top health officials has said, as the spread of the mosquito-borne virus has killed nearly a dozen people in the war-torn ...

A non-native mosquito capable of spreading diseases and hasn't been seen in Alameda County for a decade has been found in a Pleasanton neighborhood, county officials said Thursday. Residents are ...

Crisper fall weather is descending, signaling the coming end of another mosquito season that this year saw modest outbreaks of West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis. The good news has ...

A Connecticut father died Monday — five years after he was bitten by an infected mosquito while clearing brush in his wooded backyard. Richard Pawulski, 49, was killed from complications of ...

In our survey, about 6 in 10 people (59%) say they routinely take precautions to avoid getting mosquito bites at any time of year -- significantly fewer than the roughly two-thirds (67%) who said ...

A father has died following a five-year battle with a rare mosquito-borne virus that he caught in his backyard. Richard Pawuski, 49, a former personal trainer who never drank alcohol ...

Dengue is spread when a mosquito bites an infected person and then feeds on another person. It can take four to seven days for someone who is bitten by a mosquito infected with dengue to start ...

I speak of the West Nile virus, delivered by the deadliest animal on the planet: the mosquito. I got infected not during any of my international trips over the years but most likely while I was ...

Driven in part by climate change, epidemics from mosquito-spread viruses are occurring with increasing frequency. As of Oct. 1, 880 U.S. cases of West Nile virus were reported this year ...

Two more cases of the mosquito-borne dengue virus have been identified in Baldwin Park, bringing to five the recent total concentrated in the area and raising concerns of a “small local outbreak ...