In a bid to control the mosquito population, Australian researchers have come up with a new method that involves poisoning female mosquitos. The technique entails genetically modifying males to ...

The mosquito has killed as many as 50 billion people over the course of human existence. Mosquitoes are responsible for millions of yearly deaths worldwide from malaria, dengue fever and other ...

aegypti spread each brood to multiple sites: lace the first with larva poison that the mosquito takes in when she lands. Then at her next site, she poisons her own offspring. No silver bullets ...

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If you think you have had a reaction to the mosquito spray, talk to your doctor or call the regional Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222. Mosquito control officials recently sprayed a ...

When he comes back, he is bitten by another mosquito that at that moment becomes ... females is in February and March, and spraying poison outside that period only favors genetic resistance ...

A new study by Macquarie University researchers has suggested that the toxic male technique could be used to address the prevalence of mosquito-borne illness. The scientists, which genetically ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes with poisonous semen will soon be deployed in a bid to take out the disease carrying female mosquitoes plaguing Queensland. Researchers from the government funded ...

Researchers from the government funded CSIRO have worked with UK company Oxitec Ltd to develop a genetically modified species of mosquito that will hopefully see blood-feasting and disease ...

This 'toxic male technique' aims to quickly suppress mosquito-borne disease outbreaks like dengue fever, which impacts millions worldwide. In a bid to control the mosquito population, Australian ...