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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Dengue fever has killed 25 people and affected more than 6,000 over the past two months in Lahore, Pakistan, a health department spokesman said Monday.

Follow the Odor and CO2: Flight Patterns Reveal How Mosquitoes Find Hosts to Transmit Deadly Diseases ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2011) - The carbon dioxide we exhale and the odors our skins emanate serve as crucial cues to female mosquitoes on the hunt for human hosts to bite and spread diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever. Two entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have now performed experiments to study how female Aedes aegypti -- mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever and dengue -- respond to plumes of carbon dioxide and human odor.

"his long introduction leads me to a page one story in Poynter's Tampa Bay Times by one of my favorite writers Stephanie Hayes, known for her edgy versatility. It's newspaper title was "Teen Bieber fever…and those who wait." (The online title was "Outside Justin Bieber concert, parents find their own groove.") An editor approached Hayes two days before the Justin Bieber concert with news there would be a waiting room for parents. "Did I want to check it out?," she writes in an email, "Duh, of course I did. If there's a chance to find a black truffle in a bin of carrots, you must try." The story, which we're honoring as part of Poynter's Excellence Project, is quite short, but s"

Thousands of young men shouting, driving in pick-up trucks and taking control of the streets of Monrovia was, only a few years ago, a reason to flee.