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5 days ago · Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates. [6] [7] [3] Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches. [1] [8] In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death.
2 days ago · Common mosquito-borne viral diseases include yellow fever [100] and dengue fever transmitted mostly by Aedes aegypti. [101] Parasitic diseases transmitted by mosquitoes include malaria and lymphatic filariasis.
1 day ago · Mosquitoes are much more than just a summer nuisance. In fact, they play a crucial role in the transmission of many serious diseases around the world. Because of their ability to act as vectors for various pathogens, mosquitoes are responsible for the spread of diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, chikungunya, the Zika virus and many others. Understanding the behaviour of mosquitoes, their ...
2 days ago · Climate change is expanding the habitat of the mosquitoes that carry the disease, allowing them to spread further north.
1 day ago · Zoonosis. A zoonosis ( / zoʊˈɒnəsɪs, ˌzoʊəˈnoʊsɪs /; [1] plural zoonoses) or zoonotic disease is an infectious disease of humans caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) that can jump from a non-human (usually a vertebrate) to a human and vice versa. [1] [2] [3]
1 day ago · Rising temperatures are changing how vector-borne diseases – diseases spread by the bite of infected insects – are spread, the WHO said in a press release last week. Climate change expands the ...
2 days ago · Mosquito-borne diseases are those spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. The best defense against them is to take steps to avoid being bitten by infected mosquitoes. Diseases that are spread to people by mosquitoes in New Jersey include: Eastern Equine Encephalitis. St. Louis Encephalitis. West Nile Virus.
