Author: Sarah Spencer

From KCRA3 February 11, 2020 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Higher daytime temperatures are leading to an increase in mosquitoes seeking to draw the season’s first blood meals in the Sacramento region.…

From Palo Alto Online February 10, 2020 Santa Clara County will unleash an eco-friendly larvicide on mosquitoes in the Palo Alto Baylands on Wednesday. Part of an annual tradition since…

From Forbes February 8, 2020 Mosquito-carried diseases such as the Zika virus and Dengue continue to thrive in warm temperate parts of the world, but new US Department of Defense…

From the Sonoma Index-Tribune February 6, 2020 In California ticks are ready to bite year-round, but there are peak periods for some ticks in certain stages of their life cycle.…

From UC Merced February 5, 2020 Public health Ph.D. student Ryan Torres presented research at last month’s Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California Conference in San Diego that could be…

From MedicalXpress February 3, 2020 A new study led by scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research has shown for the first time that a single dose of…

  From 23ABC December 6, 2019   BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — State health officials have reported that the West Nile Virus human cases in Kern County have jumped from 23 to…

From KESQ December 3, 2019 More rain is on the way, and could potentially bring unwanted visitors. “They climb up on the trees onto the roof, they go down the…

From Precision Vaccinations December 2, 2019 December 2nd, 2019 – The Florida Department of Health (DOH) has reported information that may impact where pregnant women vacation this winter. The Florida DOH…

From BioTechniques November 29, 2019 Approximately half of the world’s population is at risk of acquiring vector-borne diseases, according to the WHO (Geneva, Switzerland). Flaviviruses, including Zika, West Nile virus and dengue virus, can…

From Zika News November 29, 2019 A recent study found about 32 percent of children born to mothers with probable or confirmed Zika virus infection had below average or poor…

From Medical News Today November 25, 2019 The EEE virus is carried by mosquitoes — through mosquito bites, it can be transmitted to equines, such as horses or zebras, and…

From Medpage Today November 24, 2019 NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — About a third of toddlers born to mothers with probable or confirmed Zika virus infection in Puerto Rico were associated…

From Beat the Bites: Mosquito Research and Management November 23, 2019 We need to do all we can to protect our urban wildlife but what if the ways we do…

From The Orange County Register November 22, 2019 Small areas of Santa Ana and Anaheim identified as having a higher level of invasive Aedes mosquitoes will be sprayed for four…

From NPR November 21, 2019 Cameron Simmons is far more familiar with dengue than he would like to be. “I’ve had dengue. My family’s had dengue. It’s a miserable, miserable…

From Science News November 20, 2019 The Americas set a gloomy record in 2019: the most dengue cases ever reported. More than 2.7 million cases of the mosquito-borne disease have struck the…

From Outbreak News Today November 18, 2019 In a follow-up on the chikungunya outbreak in Ethiopia, nearly 2,000 additional suspected cases have been reported in recent weeks, bringing the outbreak total from…

From News Medical Life Sciences November 18, 2019 A new technique that sterilizes male mosquito through radiation shows promise in fighting mosquito-borne illnesses, including Zika, dengue and chikungunya. Soon, health…

From The Hanford Sentinel November 16, 2019 There’s a new(ish) pesky critter in town, and while it doesn’t directly affect our garden plants, it does affect our gardens, and more…

From Zika News November 16, 2019 November 15th, 2019 – Patients with rare genetic mutations are helping scientists understand exactly how the Zika virus harms the developing brains of a fetus.…

From EurekAlert! November 15, 2019 Using a relevant animal model (pigs), University of Saskatchewan researchers have shown that mild Zika virus infection in fetuses can cause abnormal brain development in…

From 23 ABC November 15, 2019 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — There are three new human cases of West Nile Virus in Kern County, according to the California Department of Public Health.…

From the World Health Organization November 14, 2019 Over the past several months, Pakistan hospitals have faced an influx of thousands of patients admitted with headache, muscle pain and high…

From the World Health Organization November 14, 2019 A technique that sterilizes male mosquitoes using radiation will soon be tested as part of global health efforts to control diseases such…

From NASA.gov November 13, 2019 Utah and New Jersey state public health officials are now using a NASA-enhanced website that began in California to strengthen mosquito control efforts. The invasive…

From WBUR November 13, 2019 It’s not easy to treat viral infections. Just ask anyone with a bad cold or a case of the flu. But scientists in Massachusetts think…

From Science Daily November 13, 2019 In a study published today in the journal Cell Reports, researchers demonstrated that mammalian insulin activated an antiviral immunity pathway in mosquitoes, increasing the insects’…

From FOX 5 San Diego November 13, 2019 SAN DIEGO — San Diego County environmental health officials announced Wednesday that a dead Cooper’s hawk recently found in Ramona tested positive…

From Science Daily November 11, 2019 In most cases, mosquitoes of the genus Aedes transmit the Zika virus to humans. Primary vectors are the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) and…

From The MetroWest Daily News November 11, 2019 BOSTON — With the leaves falling, the first frost behind us, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicting a mild, but…

From Yahoo News November 7, 2019 Videographic on dengue fever and Zika. A record-breaking 44,000 people have been infected with mosquito-borne dengue in Pakistan this year, a senior health official…

From the Jamaica Observer November 7, 2019 THE Clarendon Health Services is urging residents to take mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases seriously, as the team boosts its vector management programme. Chief…

From EurekAlert! November 5, 2019 ATLANTA–A protein that is critical in controlling replication of West Nile and Zika viruses — and could be important for developing therapies to prevent and…

From Zika News November 3, 2019 November 3rd, 2019 – According to the State of California and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), additional Zika virus cases were confirmed during the…

From Champion Newspapers November 2, 2019 The West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District detected the presence of St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE) virus in two mosquito samplings collected Oct. 21…