Officials in the East Bay urged residents to take precautions after the invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito was recently found at ...

Mainland France recorded its earliest-ever local chikungunya outbreaks in May 2025, with 10 clusters (27 cases) across five ...

Health officials have confirmed the first locally acquired case of dengue fever this year in Hillsborough County.

"If Aedes aegypti becomes established in Alameda County, it can threaten public health and diminish quality of life," the ...

As international headlines focus on a fast-moving chikungunya outbreak in southern China that has sickened thousands, Florida ...

An Aedes Aegypti mosquito is photographed on human skin in a lab of the International Training and Medical Research Training Center (CIDEIM) on January 25, 2016, in Cali, Colombia.

The British company Oxitec plans to release its genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in California if the plan is approved by state officials. Above, Aedes aegypti larvae swim in a ...

Aedes can transmit diseases such as chikungunya, dengue and Zika, but they haven’t been linked to an outbreak in California. They haven’t been tied to a case of the deadly West Nile virus, either.

There are nearly 200 types of mosquitoes in the U.S., but one of them -- Aedes aegypti -- has been making headlines for transmitting Zika virus more frequently than any of the others have so far.

The Aedes vittatus is endemic to the Indian subcontinent and has never been seen in the western hemisphere until now. The mosquito is “a proven vector of chikungunya, Zika, dengue, yellow fever ...