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Chikungunya is a virus transmitted from human to human by the bite of infected mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. It was first described in southern Tanzania during an outbreak in 1952, and has been identified in over...

Dengue is the most common vector-borne viral disease in the world, causing an estimated 50–100 million infections and 25,000 deaths each year. Most cases occur in semitropical and tropical regions of the Americas, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the...

Zika virus (ZIKV) was first isolated from a nonhuman primate in Uganda in 1947 and from Ae. africanus mosquitoes in 1948. Human infections with ZIKV were sporadic for half a century before emerging in the Pacific and the Americas. History...

The Asian tiger mosquito (scientifically: Aedes albopictus, meaning “The white-painted unpleasant one”) is a day-active and aggressive mosquito that has been spreading across the United States since the mid-eighties, and it continues to do so. This mosquito usually lives closely...