Disease-carrying mosquitoes could spread across UK

Mosquitoes carrying serious diseases could become widespread across the UK in the next few decades as the climate warms, experts claim.

Biting insects that transmit “vector-borne” infections once confined to equatorial regions have invaded parts of southern and eastern Europe.

A new study predicts it will not be long before the visitors arrive in Britain, bringing with them tropical diseases such as dengue fever and chikungunya.