Lila Higgins, senior manager for community science at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, says she never experienced mosquitoes where she lives in Koreatown until recently. She says LA ...

Mosquito-borne diseases include malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, Chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika. Image Credit: mycteria / Shutterstock. Image Credit: mycteria / Shutterstock Background ...

The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, spreads dengue fever, Zika, chikungunya and other viruses that infect humans. Smith Collection / Gado/Getty Images Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes ...

It's only the females from just 6% of species that draw blood from humans - to help them develop their eggs. ... dengue fever and yellow fever. Some mosquitoes also carry the Zika virus, ...

Mosquito-borne diseases are those that are transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. The diseases spread by mosquitoes can be caused by a parasite, as in the case of malaria, or ...