The Pigeon Express
Chinese local police has managed to catch a burglar through the DNA analysis of the bloodstain left by a mosquito squashed on the wall in a stolen apartment. While investigating a burglary in a residential compound in Fuzhou, East China’s Fujian Province, the police inferred that the suspect may have stayed overnight after finding some […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared China malaria-free after a 70-year effort to wipe it out. China used to report 30 million cases a year during the 1940s. Since then, eradication efforts have driven down case numbers. The country used various methods to break the cycle of transmission of the parasite via mosquitos. The WHO […]
A video of a gigantic swarm of mosquitos moving like a tornado in Argentina has shocked citizens. The mosquito swarm confused and sacred drivers going down Route 74 between General Madariaga and Pinamar. One of the drivers on this road shot a video featuring a large tower of mosquitos arranged in a tornado-twister formation. The […]
A new Malaria mosquito is emerging in African cities, with potentially devastating consequences for those living there, a study has found. The larvae of Anopheles stephensi, India’s main mosquito are now “abundantly present” in locations across Africa, researchers from The Netherlands’ Radboud University Medical Center and Ethiopia’s Armauer Hansen Research Institute said. The Vectors are […]