Are you one of these people who loathes spending time outdoors at dusk as the weather warms and mosquitoes start biting?

Sporozoites of the malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.) invade the salivary glands of the female mosquito. Her salivary glands are very well developed and histologically regionalized. The sporozoites ...

When a female mosquito is infected with the dengue virus, the virus is present in its salivary glands. How does the virus travel from the mosquito's salivary glands into a human? When taking a ...

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 ...

The parasite spends the first stage of its life cycle in the salivary glands of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. When an infected mosquito bites a human, the malaria parasite enters the red blood ...

Even if a mosquito had virus-containing blood from another human inside it, the blood would never exit the bug through its salivary glands and into your blood stream. "For a mosquito to transmit a ...

Her feeding apparatus, that elaborate proboscis, is a multipart marvel with a skin-piercing fascicle of tiny stylets that can suck your blood while injecting mosquito saliva laced with an ...

Dengue is a viral disease that can cause severe illness in some people. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports an 8-fold ...

When a mosquito bites a person already infected with dengue, the virus transfers to the salivary gland of the mosquito—when this infected mosquito bites a human, the virus gets transmitted to ...

The virus replicates in the mosquito's digestive tract, and is then carried through the bloodstream to the salivary glands. This cycle takes between seven and seventeen days, during which the ...