Climate change may contribute to a northerly range expansion of the biting midges that carry the oropouche virus.

Anyone who has ever kept a horse or pony who suffers with sweet itch will know that it can be a tricky health condition to ...

Sweet Itch is also known as insect bite hypersensitivity or Culicoides hypersensitivity. It is caused by an allergic reaction to the saliva of biting insects, usually midges. It causes intense itching ...

“It is remarkably difficult to predict the progress of the disease, as the Culicoides midge is highly weather-dependent. Regardless of how our summer unfolds, we already know the Royal Highland Show ...

The majority of affected holdings are located in the southern half of the country, where warmer, wetter conditions have facilitated the spread of Culicoides midges, the vector for the virus. The ...

It was a bad year for EHD.” As per the official Commonwealth site, “The EHD and BT viruses are both transmitted by biting flies or midges in the group called Culicoides. Female midges pick up the ...

These tiny insects, also called midges, are similar in appearance to flies but are more closely related to mosquitoes in their feeding habits. Belonging to the Culicoides genus, they are locally ...

The main vector that transfers the pathogen between humans is the midge Culicoides paraensis, which is the size of the head of a pin and is found from Argentina up to the United States.

The disease primarily transmits to humans through the bite of Culicoides paraensis midges, a species of biting midges. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), between 1 January and 25 ...

The virus is spread mainly by the bite of Culicoides paraensis midges, which are very small flies, and sometimes by mosquitoes. As with Zika, there aren’t any medicines to treat Oropouche fever ...

The Pirbright Institute Infected culicoides midges blown over from northern Europe can infect livestock with one bite "We know from the experience in the Netherlands, where the outbreak has been ...