The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2 ...

While researchers gain new insights into the transmission of Buruli ulcer in Australia, public health specialists in Africa are working to engage traditional healers. Sophie Cousins reports.

Not all mosquitoes are to blame, however. Every bloodsucking malaria vector comes from those within the group Anopheles leucosphyrus, which encompasses a comparatively small portion of the planet’s ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...