The programme will cover over 800,000 households - half of Singapore's homes - by year-end, said the National Environment ...

Scientists discovered a smell receptor in mosquitoes that detects the plant compound borneol and triggers an immediate ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Health Authority, Jackson County Vector Control and Jackson County Public Health Division have confirmed the identification of Aedes aegypti (Ae. Aegypti) mosquitoes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep in northwestern Africa, a high-pitched hum pierces the moist forest. It is the mosquito Aedes aegypti, laying its eggs inside ...

A non-native mosquito capable of spreading diseases and hasn't been seen in Alameda County for a decade has been found in a Pleasanton neighborhood, county officials said Thursday. Residents are being ...

As summer ushers in peak mosquito season, health and vector control officials are bracing for the possibility of another year of historic rates of dengue. And with climate change, the lack of an ...

Bay Area officials are urging residents to clear their yards of any items that hold standing water, as the non-native yellow ...

The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue, yellow fever, and Zika was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in ...

Complaints of invasive, day-biting Aedes mosquitoes are beginning to rise across Ventura County, spurring recommendations for people to drain standing water outside their homes and take other measures ...

Staff are setting mosquito traps throughout the Las Vegas Valley as part of the Health District’s Mosquito Disease ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Officials in the ...

Irked residents across Southern California have recently complained to their vector control districts about an onslaught of ...