Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

Dengue’s brutal “breakbone” fever has long been one of global health’s most stubborn failures, a disease that keeps resurging even as other infections retreat. Now a convergence of mosquito ...

Launched in 2016, Project Wolbachia involves the release of male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that are infected with the Wolbachia bacterium. These males mate with female Aedes mosquitoes, resulting in ...

Brevard County leads Florida in locally acquired dengue fever cases for 2025. Dengue is a painful, flu-like viral infection spread by mosquitoes, not from person to person. While most cases are mild, ...

A drug once designed for dengue virus, then quietly abandoned by industry, is suddenly back in the spotlight, and it may be exactly what the global health community has been waiting for. A new study ...

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Just like the moment a mosquito bites, the shot of dengue virus I received in my arm was so quick and painless that afterward I wasn't even sure it happened at all. A few years ago, I wrote a story ...