Mosquito-Borne Disease

Permethrin-treated baby wraps, used alongside bed nets, significantly reduced malaria cases among children aged 6 to 18 months in Uganda, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Driven by climate change, population mobility and global trade, mosquito-borne diseases are extending beyond tropical and subtropical areas.

The only dengue vaccine ever approved in the United States is being discontinued, raising questions about control of the mosquito-borne virus amid a decades-long surge in cases.

Suriname became the first country in the Amazon region to be declared free of malaria, WHO announced this week.

The NIH announced that it is launching a phase 2 human challenge trial of AV-1, an investigational monoclonal antibody to ease dengue virus symptoms when given before and after infection.

New Hampshire on Tuesday announced that a person in the state who tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis virus has died after being hospitalized with severe central nervous system diseases.

PCR-based West Nile virus testing using whole blood was effective and favored compared with plasma testing as an initial test for infection, researchers reported.

The mosquito is one of the world’s most impactful forces. The breadth of transmissible diseases caused by a mosquito bite, including malaria, has helped shape human history.

In retrospect, my path to infectious diseases began before I recognized it.

WHO on Wednesday recommended the widespread use of a malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and other areas heavily impacted by the mosquito-borne disease, which kills more than 400,000 people a year.