Viruses are master parasites that have adapted to infect many host species. Some viruses even use multiple hosts to spread ...

Some viruses, known as arboviruses, use insects to spread their infections to other hosts, such as humans and animals.

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Researchers have uncovered some of the tactics viruses use to spread through insect hosts to infect other animals.

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Almost daily headlines about the spread of rare, potentially deadly insect-borne diseases like eastern equine encephalitis ...

Chemical ecology is a dynamic and interdisciplinary research area that has evolved significantly over the past decades. It ...

West Nile, dengue and eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) are some examples of vector-borne viruses. Vectors are insects such as mosquitoes, ticks and fleas and that spread illnesses or germs.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, capable of carrying diseases, have been detected in Gilroy, prompting vector control actions.

A little-known disease spread by insect bites has turned deadly ... a medical epidemiologist with the CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases. But the risk level is more uncertain in places ...

Mosquito-related news has been making national headlines recently including renowned public health scientist Dr. Anthony Fauci being hospitalized due to ...