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PHOENIX — With Arizona getting more rainfall in recent weeks, residents have emailed ABC15 saying they’re getting bitten more often by mosquitoes. The Maricopa County Environmental Services Vector Control Division said they’ve been receiving more complaints in the last 10 days compared to all of last year. Division manager John Townsend said they’ve received almost a thousand community complaints in …

Dangerous mosquitoes that like warm temperatures found in East Bay  SFGATE Additional invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitoes found in Antioch neighborhood  CBS News More West Nile Virus-infected mosquitoes found in Contra Costa  Danville San Ramon More Aedes Aegypti Found in Antioch  Contra Costa News Antioch: More Dangerous Mosquitoes Found; Residents Urged To Dump Standing Water  SFGATE Source link

Habits such as beer or cannabis consumption, or sleeping next to somebody the night before, make people more attractive to mosquitoes, according to a study. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay Researchers in the Netherlands turned a major music festival into an unexpected laboratory to investigate a question that has long puzzled scientists and bug-bitten individuals alike: What makes some people more …

Support for this article was provided by the Pulitzer Center. Last month, a parade of vehicles wound its way through three cities in Brazil, releasing clouds of mosquitoes into the air. The insects all carry a secret weapon — a bacterium called Wolbachia that lowers the odds that the mosquitoes can transmit the dreaded dengue virus to humans. This is …

Mosquitoes especially attracted to beer drinkers, study shows  NewsNation Want to avoid mosquito bites? Step away from the beer  Science News This Drink Makes You More Attractive to Mosquitos  Newsweek “They Simply Have A Taste For The Hedonists Among Us”: Festival Mosquito Study Has Some Bad News  IFLScience Beer drinkers 35% more likely to become a magnet for mosquitoes  New Atlas Source link

Santa Clara Co.: Parts Of Santa Clara, Sunnyvale To Be Sprayed With Pesticide Targeting Invasive Mosquitoes  SFGATE Source link

Mosquitoes in Imperial County carry brain-inflammation virus  fox5sandiego.com Public Health IDs Mosquito Pools Positive for St. Louis Encephalitis  Calexico Chronicle Health officials find St. Louis Encephalitis mosquitoes in Brawley  Imperial Valley Press Online Source link

In summer 2025, a Hong Kong resident developed symptoms of the mosquito-borne illness chikungunya — the first time the area had seen a case in six years. What’s happening? The illness chikungunya is primarily transmitted via mosquito bites. Bloomberg reported that a 12-year-old developed a rash, fever, and significant joint pain after traveling to Foshan, China. In previous weeks, the …

Aedis aegypti, found in Ashland for the first time, is capable of spreading Zika and dengue; officials widen search and urge residents to eliminate standing water By Damian Mann for Ashland.news A disease-spreading, invasive mosquito with a penchant for human blood has been discovered in neighborhoods of south Ashland. Known as aedes aegypti (pronounced like “80s egypti”), it was previously …

There are some biological reasons why mosquitoes are more attracted to some people more than others. dimid_86 via Getty Images If you’ve ever been at an outdoor party or BBQ during the fading hours of daylight and don’t personally notice an increase in the number of mosquitoes, you’ll probably hear someone complaining about it. That’s because mosquitoes are selective insects, …