We have created a globalized society, but it is not only human populations that are increasingly interconnected. The movement of invasive species and disease vectors along our expanding routes of trade and migration presents us with serious problems of environmental change and novel public health

With temperatures being so high this summer, mosquitoes (and their bites) are proliferating. But did you know that only the female mosquitoes bite? Why does this happen?

Popular lore has transmitted the use of basil as a mosquito repellent to avoid their bite. Why this plant repel mosquitoes?