Figure 1: Global estimates of human mortality caused by vector-borne diseases. Historically, vector control has proven successful for disease control. For example, vector-control programmes ...

Each week some 20,000 people die from malaria. There will be no magic ways of reducing this dreadful toll, not least because the mosquito vector and the parasite itself have formidable abilities to ...

SANTA CRUZ — When the invasive mosquito Aedes aegypti was detected in Santa Cruz County for the first time in 2022, county Assistant Mosquito and Vector Control Manager Amanda Poulsen knew her team ...