Summer means a lot of things: For kids, it's freedom from school. For their parents, it's beach weekends, baseball and backyard cookouts. Unfortunately, it's also West Nile virus season — with ...

A recent study led by UW professor Marissa Childs links the rise of dengue fever, a disease spread by mosquitoes to ...

We all love to spend the summer months outside, but the warmest months also bring out more bugs, some of which may carry nasty diseases. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...

A vaccine manufactured inside insect pupae has been submitted for the first time to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for regulatory approval. Algenex’ CrisBio ® technology aims to disrupt the ...

Starting to scratch? That’s because mosquito season is upon us. Mosquitoes are a big part of summer in the U.S., but they may be an even bigger concern this year. In June, the Centers for Disease ...

Living in a low-income neighborhood means dealing with all manner of injustices that richer people don’t have to deal with – from low life expectancy to worse air quality to earsplitting noise to ...