mosquito
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County’s positive mosquito samples were 10 times higher this year than last and nationally, human cases were at a 20-year high for that point in the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Also known as “breakbone fever” — the painful, debilitating disease, which can be fatal, is caused by a virus adapted to an invasive, African mosquito known as Aedes aegypti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Instead of trying to suppress mosquito numbers, his approach releases both males and females carrying the same strain, so their eggs hatch normally but the bacteria spreads through the population.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Military-grade mosquito spray, with its odor of kerosene and bad cheese, perfumed the air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
We got into bed and covered ourselves in our mosquito nets, feeling clean and new.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
This year, conditions including a record-smashing March heat wave led to a surge in California’s native Culex mosquitoes, the transmitters of West Nile virus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The black-and-white striped mosquitoes were first detected in 2013 in California, likely arriving via human travel and cargo transport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
His apartment is baking and it is "impossible to live with all the mosquitoes."
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
In May, Google applied for a permit to release 32 million mosquitoes for a similar project in Florida and California.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
There were still some mosquitoes, but most of them left and the two of them were left standing in the moonlight.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
Those around him fell sick, exposed to relentless mosquitos.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
To avoid contracting West Nile virus, the CDC recommends reducing outside activities during the daytime, when mosquitos are most active.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
This virus is predominantly spread by midge bites rather than mosquitos, with the main type of midge involved in transmission not found in Europe or the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
The region has also experienced outbreaks of malaria, exacerbated by the floods which leave pockets of standing water that act as breeding grounds for the mosquitos that carry the disease.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2025
All day in the water had tired him so much that, in the end, he had fallen asleep sitting against his shelter wall, oblivious even to the mosquitos, to the night, to anything.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
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