The Florida International University study measured the attractiveness of 3 different species of mosquitoes towards 119 human ...

To understand the genetic makeup of the Culex mosquito, and how the insect is able to transmit this and other viruses, scientists have sequenced the genome of Culex quinquefasciatus, a representative ...

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health have coauthored a paper recently published in the journal Science that announces the genome sequencing of Culex ...

Brazilian researchers said on Thursday they have found that another species of mosquito is able to transmit the Zika virus to humans. Fiocruz institute said that additional studies will be needed to ...

Transmission of the virus was only known through the Aedes aegypti mosquito but now Culex quinquefasciatus species is also identified to cause Zika. Another type of Zika-transmitting mosquito, ...

Last year, 720 people in the United States became infected with West Nile virus, a potentially serious illness that is spread through the bite of a mosquito the Culex mosquito that has first fed on ...