Blackbird deaths point to looming West Nile Virus threat in...
Blackbird numbers have fallen in the UK as the Usutu virus has taken hold Ytje Veenstra/Shutterstock A deadly virus is killing blackbirds across the UK. Beyond the risk to the...
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Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue...
Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy is set on a drowned future Earth Alamy Stock Photo Dead, you mean? Spread-eagle on that strange white surface which lay beneath the inclement Antarctic sun,...
New Scientist Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as...
An unusual-looking hero Alamy Stock Photo The idea that the hero of Dengue Boy would be a mosquito emerged in 2020, during the peak of the covid-19 pandemic, when a...
Manila town offers bounty for mosquitoes as dengue rises
Authorities in one of the Philippines’ most densely-populated urban centres are offering a cash reward for mosquitoes in an attempt to stop the spread of dengue. Carlito Cernal, village chief...
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