The dengue virus is the culprit behind this disease, and mosquitoes that bite infected people and go on to bite others are the primary perpetrators responsible for spreading it across human ...

Kevin Flores, 11, remains under a mosquito net while being treated for dengue fever at La Mascota hospital in Managua, Nicaragua, last fall. Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images hide caption ...

The development marks the first engineered approach in mosquitoes that targets the four known types of dengue, improving upon previous designs that addressed single strains. They then designed the ...

Two types of mosquito known to carry dengue and yellow fever - tropical illnesses rarely seen in California - have been spotted around the state, including San Mateo County, and now vector control ...

These differences separate them from Culex mosquitoes, which are the more common type in much of the U.S. Culex mosquitoes aren’t considered “competent” vectors of dengue, so if your area ...

Genetically engineered mosquitoes are resistant to multiple types of dengue virus (DENV), according to a study published Jan. 16 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Prasad Paradkar of the ...

Dengue fever is caused by one of four different types of dengue viruses, according to Mayo Clinic's website. Dengue fever is spread by mosquito bites and cannot be transmitted directly from person ...

The researchers found that mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia or dengue virus passed out and fell to the bottom of the vial up to 2.5 times or five times faster, respectively, than uninfected insects.