INFECTIOUS diseases are common among people living in unclean, polluted environment. Dirty environment is favourable for ...

Despite the constant presence of mosquitoes, the risk of disease transmission fluctuates throughout the year between high and low risk months.

Cory Morrow, with his rollicking, soulful, feel-good Texas country has helped Texans jump on tabletops and suspend worries ...

Mosquito population in Dhaka has swelled, menacing city life, although the city authorities have spent about Tk 358.1 crore over four years on control programmes. Residents of many areas such as ...

From the perspective of viruses spread by insects, or arboviruses, making the evolutionary leap from insects to humans is a tough battle. Viruses cannot replicate very well in humans, which means ...

The skin bumps are the body's reaction to the mosquito's saliva. While it's sucking blood, some of its secretions get mixed in. Only female mosquitoes bite. They need a blood meal to produce eggs. The ...

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

Three of the four stages of the mosquito life cycle take place in water – eggs are laid in pools of stagnant water, which hatch into larvae and pupae which develop within them. When asked how ...