Climate change and extreme weather have the potential to increase cases of mosquito-borne diseases and push the insects into new areas of Australia, according to medical and research science experts.
Southwest Sydney has been taken over by “swarms” of mosquitoes, with the crisis stemming from an outbreak of the weed frogbit at the Sydney Water Water Recycling Plant (WRP) at Warwick Farm.
As mosquitoes become more resistant to insecticides in the Pacific, James Cook University scientists are heading to Fiji to help stop mosquito-borne ...