DSCC is implementing a month-long special cleanliness and mosquito control programme across the city to strengthen sanitation activities and prevent mosquito-borne diseases. Similar drives are being ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech conducted a three-year study to understand how mosquitoes locate humans, aiming to improve control methods against the world's most dangerous animal.

Researchers have known for decades that female mosquitoes—the ones responsible for the itchy and irritating bites that can also transmit disease—lose their desire to bite humans for several days after ...

A mosquito finds its target with the help of certain cues in its environment, such as a person's silhouette and the carbon ...

Suryavanshi said the hike was necessary because the civic body did not meet expected income targets from property tax, water ...

The Department of Disease Control and the National Science and Technology Development Agency will jointly promote R&D translation and government-wide collaboration to modernise public health ...

Mosquitoes typically spread disease, rather than prevent it, but Chinese scientists have proposed using the insects as an unlikely vector to deliver vaccines to bats. In a study published in Science ...