A research team from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) has analyzed the zooplankton communities in the White Nile and Blue Nile in Khartoum. It is the first study ...

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A team of researchers has discovered a set of methods that enabled the first successful CRISPR-based genome editing in Nile grass rats. A team of researchers at Michigan State University has ...

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In this image provided by the USDA Agricultural Research Service, a mosquito stands upon human skin. Health officials have confirmed this year’s first human case of West Nile virus in the Pittsburgh ...

Westchester’s first human West Nile virus case this year has been confirmed in a Yonkers man, the county government said. “This first case of West Nile virus should remind all of us to remove standing ...

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Rocco Genovese sets up a trap at Robinson Park in Scranton. It's one of 15 gravid mosquito traps that he places weekly around Lackawanna County. "This is like a compost tea," Genovese said. "So we put ...

A Harris County man tested positive for West Nile virus, the first case of 2025 in the unincorporated part of the county, public health officials said. The man, who lives in eastern Harris County, has ...

Harris County Public Health officials report mosquitos carrying the West Nile virus have increased over five times the number reported two weeks ago. Dr. Max Vigilant, with the Harris County Mosquito ...