Massachusetts Reports First Human Cases of Mosquito-Borne West Nile Virus
Massachusetts’ health agency has reported the first cases of the West Nile virus this year, a dangerous illness carried by mosquitoes. They’re urging people to be cautious. On August 29, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) announced that a man in his 40s got the West Nile virus in Middlesex County, a place already […]
CIA’s Secret Mosquito Experiments In India
On July 17, 2020, Nandita Haksar, a prominent advocate for civil rights and a lawyer in the Supreme Court, raised an intriguing question in her article titled “Stranger than fiction: Did the CIA carry out clandestine mosquito experiments in 1970s India?” She pondered whether scientific collaboration becomes a battleground where profit-driven politics clash with politics […]
Mosquitoes’ Scent Based Host Seeking Mechanism Revealed
New findings on the brain of the mosquito might help researchers get closer to combating mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria and yellow fever, which still harm millions of people. The study reveals mosquitoes’ scent based host seeking mechanism.