Mosquito‑ & Vector‑Borne Disease

31+ min ago   (1133+ words) When public health researchers want to know whether diseases such as COVID-19 or polio are circulating in a community, they can look for genetic evidence in wastewater. Entomologist Dana Price wondered whether the same principle could be applied to mosquitoes....

17+ hour, 38+ min ago   (382+ words) India approves QDENGA, the vaccine that fights all four dengue strains. For decades, dengue prevention in India has meant the same tired checklist, drain stagnant water, wear full sleeves, hope the mosquitoes miss you. That's about to change. QDENGA, a…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (312+ words) According to a 2026 research study published in Science Advances, ancient Europeans didn't eat insects, though our Neanderthal cousins appear to have consumed them regularly. The researchers, from Catalonia, Spain, had access to the fossilized teeth of 745 ancient modern humans, from…...

19+ hour, 7+ min ago   (190+ words) TAMPA — State health authorities in Florida confirmed the state’s first dengue fever fatality of the year, marking a grim milestone in what public health officials have classified as one of the most severe regional transmission surges in decades. The confirmation…...

1+ day, 47+ min ago   (513+ words) Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue fever in decades, and the toll now includes a death. The Florida Department of Health confirmed the death on Friday,... State Confirms Dengue Death, Amid Worst Surge in Decades Florida…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (426+ words) TAMPA, Fla. — The Florida Department of Health confirmed Friday that an 80-year-old Hillsborough County woman is the state's first known dengue fever death of 2026, after Gay Small died Sept. 4 at Tampa General Hospital on her birthday. The Tampa Bay Times…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (173+ words) The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced the eighth human case of West Nile virus in Massachusetts on Friday. Officials said a woman in her 30s was exposed in Middlesex County. West Nile risk levels are currently high in Boston and…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (41+ words) Health facilities across Rawalpindi district have screened 4,339 patients, registering 4,010 suspected cases and nine confirmed dengue fever cases during the ongoing year, with zero disease-related fatalities reported, according to official surveillance data released by the District Health Authority.....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (643+ words) Antonino Bella, a senior researcher at the Infectious Diseases Department of the Italian National Institute of Health, looks at a map of Italy showing provinces with confirmed circulation of West Nile virus in vectors, animals, and humans during the 2026 season,…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (603+ words) Mumbai: With vector-borne diseases such as Malaria, Dengue and Chikungunya registering a sharp rise across the city amid intermittent monsoon showers, citizens blamed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for delaying fumigation and other pest control measures, leading to a spurt…...