Mosquitoes are now able to bite humans and spread diseases all year round due to climate change Mosquitoes, which can spread diseases like dengue fever and Zika virus, used to be active mostly during warm...

Mosquitoes mean nothing personal when they take your blood. Female mosquitoes need protein for their eggs, and must take a blood meal in order to reproduce. Since males don't bear the burden of producing young,...

Lyme Disease, also known as Lyme Borreliosis, is a tick-borne bacterial infection. This major health concern only earned recognition very recently and is still hard to diagnose as the symptoms are complex and vary from one person...

Ticks are arachnids in the Acari subclass, more related to spiders than to insects. There are more than 850 species of ticks in the world. They feed on the blood of mammals and birds, and...

Besides the fact that mosquitoes are annoying, they can also carry several serious illnesses like Dengue, Zika or Chikungunya. Mosquitoes can be found worldwide and despite we may associate their bites with outside activities like...

Zika is the name of a forest in Uganda where the virus was discovered in 1947(1) (2). This virus is from the same family as dengue and yellow fever. After raising in Africa in the...

Dengue is a viral disease carried by two kinds of mosquito, the Aedes aegypti and the Aedes albopictus. [1] The disease comes from four types of viruses (DENV1, DENV2, DENV3 and DENV4). [2] There are...

Are mosquitoes all the same? 3546 species can be found across the globe so the answer is obviously no. The female mosquitoes are the only one to bother us during these warmer days but did...

Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne disease that cause fever and joint pain. [1] The disease is only transmitted through mosquito bites, due to the Aedes albopictus, an aggressive specie of mosquito that can bear several diseases. Discovered...