Asian tiger mosquitoes can drive down yellow fever mosquito populations when the female chooses the wrong male with which to mate, UF/IFAS scientists say. Both insects transmit chikungunya and dengue, dangerous diseases affecting millions of people worldwide.

US scientists have identified the chemicals responsible for the mosquito-repelling activity of sweetgrass, a plant traditionally used by some Native Americans to fend off the bugs.

Malaria situation in the Central - Western Highlands in 2013 and the first nine months of 2014 tended to decrease. However in the last 2 months of 2014 (October, November), malaria was recorded with unexpected occurrence in the Central - Western Highlands areas, the proportion of malaria patients and parasites increased in almost every province.

No more mosquito bites! No more fleas! No more moths! A new class of insect repellent is thousands of times more effective than DEET.

A team of scientists at Yale University is working o­n a new birth-control drug for male mosquitos that could slow the malaria epidemic, a disease that sickens more than 215 million people, killing 655,000 each year.

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