PHOENIX (AZFamily) — With many children on fall break and temperatures staying cool, Valley parks are expected to see heavy crowds throughout the week. However, families should prepare for an ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Mosquitoes have taken over the Valley in droves: they might be swarming all around your head, but the problem is definitely not in your head. The lack of monsoon action over the ...

Mosquito bites itch due to an immune system reaction to the insect's saliva. Scratching a bite releases more histamines, which increases inflammation and itching. To soothe a bite, you can apply a ...

ST. LANDRY PARISH — You’ve heard of boudin festivals, crawfish festivals, even cracklin’ festivals — but have you ever heard of a mosquito festival? Yep, you read that right — a Mosquito Festival — ...

China’s Guangdong Province is battling its worst-ever chikungunya outbreak, with thousands of infections spreading across major cities and nearby regions. Transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, the disease ...

Doctors in New York have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne illness first identified in Tanzania. It is the first New York case where the mosquito ...

A resident of New York has contracted the state's first known case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease acquired locally, officials said. The person infected in Long Island likely got the virus ...

A person on Long Island has been infected with the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus, the first time someone has caught the disease in New York, state health officials said. Chikungunya disease is most ...

A case of Chikungunya virus on Long Island was locally acquired, health officials say Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's Digest ...

A type of mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground has a much older origin in the Mediterranean, according to a new genetic study. The myth originated during World War II ...

Oct. 10 (UPI) --The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil, aiming to boost protection ...