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Doctor with Oropouche virus positive blood sample. (Fania Witardiana / Getty Images)

Doctors raise alarm about “sloth fever"

Troy Farah
The Aedes mosquito is a known vector for several viruses, including West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, dengue virus, chikungunya virus, and Zika virus. (Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Zika makes human skin "mosquito magnet"

Nicole Karlis
Candiru (Vandellia cirrhosa), also known as cañero, toothpick fish, or vampire fish, is a species of parasitic freshwater catfish in the family Trichomycteridae native to the Amazon Basin. (Jorge Garcia/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Nature’s strangest real life vampires

Matthew Rozsa
An environmental health specialist and entomologist for the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness displays a mosquito collected earlier in the day on August 25, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Climate change is expanding reach of EEE

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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Mosquito drinking blood (Getty Images/iiievgeniy)

How deadly is "triple E" mosquito virus?

Nicole Karlis
A woman sleeps with her baby in the maternity ward of a hospital on August 14, 2009 in Goroka in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. (Jason South/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)

Pregnant in a warming climate

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A dengue fever patient walks inside the Sergio Bernales National Hospital in the outskirts of Lima on April 17, 2024. (Juan Carlos CISNEROS / AFP) (Photo by JUAN CARLOS CISNEROS/AFP via Getty Images)

Neglected tropical diseases need action

Mary Woolley
Mosquito in old book with mosquito swatter and blood stain (Getty Images/Nikola Nastasic)

Mosquito-borne illness reaches U.S. soil

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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A Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) worker fumigates an area to prevent mosquitos from breeding in New Delhi. (PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)

Why mosquitoes are taking over Delhi

Monika Mondal - Undark
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Mosquitoes are happy with climate change

Melissa Bailey - KFF Health News
Tick on skin (Getty Images/nechaev-kon)

Ticks, mosquitoes and climate change

Matthew Rozsa
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Residents say no to mosquito spraying

Michael Schulson - Undark
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Risks of genetically modified mosquitoes

Natalie Kofler, Françoise Baylis, Graham Dellaire, Landon J Getz - The Conversation
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Invasive mosquitoes on the move

Harriet Blair Rowan - KFF Health News
Anchorage, Alaska (Getty/Chilkoot)

Climate change pushing disease to Alaska

Eric Holthaus - Grist
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Mosquitoes like it hot

Max Levy - Massive Science
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An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

"GMO" isn't a dirty word

Angelo Young
FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The CDC is working with Florida health officials to investigate what could be the first Zika infection from a mosquito bite in the continental United States. They said Tuesday, July 19, 2016, lab tests confirm a person in the Miami area is infected with the Zika virus, and there may not be any connection to someone traveling outside the country. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File) (AP)

Zika on steroids

Valerie Tarico - Alternet
Paul Ryan (Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein)

The GOP's Zika paralysis

Robert Hennelly
FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The CDC is working with Florida health officials to investigate what could be the first Zika infection from a mosquito bite in the continental United States. They said Tuesday, July 19, 2016, lab tests confirm a person in the Miami area is infected with the Zika virus, and there may not be any connection to someone traveling outside the country. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File) (AP)

Christine Curry - The Conversation
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Mosquito (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-299515p1.html'>mycteria</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Paula Young Lee - DAME
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Lindsay Abrams
Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) (Marco Uliana/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Screenshot, ASAPScience)

Lindsay Abrams
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