“Killer mosquitoes” are now “setting up shop in Europe” – bringing with them disesases including potentially deadly dengue fever, health experts have warned. However, an uptick in investment in drugs used to treat the disease may spell bad news for the rest
Social media users have been sharing a viral life hack that claims mosquitos can be repelled with a bubble machine and have reported success with the method. Videos uploaded to TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have generated millions of views as testers
The new US cases come after more than two million genetically modified mosquitoes were released in Florida and California last year by UK-based but US-owned firm Oxitec. In March 2022, the firm said its genetically modified male – and therefore non-biting, mosquitoes
Blood-sucking mosquitoes will be lured away from populated areas using so-called “sugar traps” in accordance with a new technique being developed by scientists at Cardiff University. A specially-devised cocktail of attractant chemicals will mimic the smell of trees and other plant flowers
Argentine, fighting one of its worst outbreaks of dengue in recent years, is sterilizing mosquitoes using radiation that alters their DNA before releasing them into the wild. The South American country has this year recorded over 41,000 cases of the disease transmitted