Driving the news: The helicopter is being used as part of a mosquito control program by the Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District (CVMVCD) to reduce the risk of mosquito-borne ...

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is taking steps to protect people from mosquito-borne viruses. A helicopter will be flying over the Great Swamp area in South ...

An Aug. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a flying helicopter with a dark-colored streak billowing from underneath it. “As towns across Massachusetts prepare to lockdown (sic ...

The East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project will use a helicopter to pre-treat wetland areas in Wayland soon, attempting to ...

Mark Burnand, Chief Test Pilot at Leonardo Helicopters UK, talks through the advanced avionics on board the latest generation battlefield utility AW149 helicopter. The Chinook has served in every RAF ...

Mosquito-borne diseases are those that are transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. The diseases spread by mosquitoes can be caused by a parasite, as in the case of malaria, or ...

The mosquito can transmit a number of fatal infections, including malaria, dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, Zika, West Nile and EEE. Each year, diseases resulting from a mosquito bite cause at ...

What are the differences between cab types? A regular cab only has one row of seats and limited interior storage, while an extended cab has two rows of seats and also comes with small secondary ...

Our editors also may be in touch with follow-up questions. The company’s founders transformed Mosquito Joe from a small Virginia Beach-based company, into a thriving national business with ...

However, the paper points out that 700,000 people die each year from mosquito bites — we didn’t verify that, but according to the article that’s twice the number of people murdered each year.

The mosquito-borne disease is rare but serious, with about 30 percent of people who contract severe EEE dying and others developing neurological issues.