Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Employees work in a laboratory of the British biotechnology company Oxitec, in Campinas, Brazil, on October 1. The British ...

Dengue has been a public health problem in the tropical world for decades and 2024 saw a global dengue surge, with more than 14 million cases and 10 thousand deaths reported worldwide—more than double ...

Brazil has unveiled the world's largest biofactory dedicated to breeding mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, an innovative method poised to safeguard an estimated 140 million people from ...

Inside a small building in eastern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cátia Cabral holds up a jar filled with what looks like fine black pepper. But this ain't pepper. Each granule is actually a tiny mosquito ...

Dengue has been a public health problem in the tropical world for decades and 2024 saw a global dengue surge, with more than 14 million cases and 10 thousand deaths reported worldwide – more than more ...

If you want to visit a place with no mosquitoes, you’ll have to go south – far south. Mosquitoes were found in Iceland for the first time ever this month, leaving only Antarctica with no reported ...

Oct. 10 (UPI) --The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil, aiming to boost protection ...