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.

Warm weather is here and mosquitoes are on the rise in Australia. Unseasonably large swarms are causing problems in some ...

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.

Brown house mosquitoes were only considered a minor threat to public health in Australia, Webb said, and typically bred in stormwater and wastewater. Other species bred in saltwater or stagnant ...

Australian researchers at the centre of the fight to eradicate key diseases transmitted by mosquitos have received a much-needed boost - $50 million to further their research efforts. They're ...

Australian researchers are hopeful further research will result in a future where mosquitos can no longer devastate human health. Sign up now for the latest news from Australia and around the ...