Ciguatera—a toxin that accumulates in reef fish—is a common cause of seafood poisoning. Learn which fish are safest to order ...

Last month, a mob of pelicans amassed on the Central California coast, diving in droves for fish prey in the turbulent waters ...

My love-hate relationship with Mosquito Lake dates back to 1977, the year I began to widen my fishing horizon to include waters beyond the reach of the casts I could make from the banks of creeks and ...

A severed mosquito proboscis can be turned into an extremely fine nozzle for 3D printing, and this could help create replacement tissues and organs for transplants. Changhong Cao at McGill University ...

The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue, yellow fever, and Zika was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood. The Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like ...

BOULDER — In an out-of-the-way hot-spring pond just outside of Boulder, a century-old colony of tropical fish known for their appetite for mosquitoes is giving health officials another way to combat ...

Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News.

SAN DIEGO — Mosquitoes collected recently in routine monitoring in the City Heights and Skyline neighborhoods have tested positive for West Nile virus, San Diego County announced Monday. To help ...

Florida has always been itchy with bloodsuckers, but changing weather, invasive species, human development and the mosquito’s adaptation to longer, hotter summers are increasing mosquito populations ...

Florida mosquito control teams have had their hands full this season in part due to a population explosion all over the state, as well as an uptick in locally acquired cases of dengue, a ...