This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... We’ve known for more than a century that a mosquito’s bite can pass on brutal disease: Zika is the virus ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... with some chilling recent additions. The mosquito-borne chikungunya virus has spread to parts of Africa, Europe ...

the drug might be able to knock down disease-transmitting mosquito populations to the point that it breaks the chain of infection," said National Geographic. Ivermectin is another drug that is ...