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4 days ago · mosquito, (family Culicidae), any of approximately 3,500 species of familiar insects, some of which are important in public health because of the bloodsucking habits of the females. Mosquitoes are known to transmit serious diseases, including yellow fever, Zika fever, malaria, filariasis, and dengue. Taxonomy. Kingdom: Animalia. Phylum: Arthropoda.
- Anopheles
Other articles where Anopheles is discussed: mosquito:...
- Aedes Aegypti
In thermoreception: Thermoreception in invertebrates....
- Anopheles
1 day ago · The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and ...
- February 1918 – April 1920
- Worldwide
- 25–50 million (generally accepted), other estimates range from 17 to 100 million
- Influenza
4 days ago · Rat fever, field fever, rat catcher's yellows, pretibial fever: Leptospira magnified 200-fold with a dark-field microscope: Specialty: Infectious disease: Symptoms: None, headaches, muscle pains, fevers: Complications: Bleeding from the lungs, meningitis, kidney failure: Usual onset: One to two weeks: Causes: Leptospira typically spread by rodents
- 58,900 per year
Mar 20, 2020 · 1. Yellow Fever. The quarantine station on Staten Island. Image from New York Public Library. In August 1793, a yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia, killing around 5,000 residents out of...
5 days ago · The Yellow Fever virus is a single-stranded RNA virus that is a member of the Flaviviridae family. The primary route of transmission of this virus is through the bite of an infected mosquito, typically in tropical regions of South America and Africa.
3 days ago · Yellow fever virus (YFV) is the prototype member of the genus Flavivirus and family Flaviviridae. It is an arbovirus transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes in Africa and Americas, causing a disease with a large spectrum of symptoms, from mild disease to severe and deadly haemorrhagic fever in humans and New World non-human primates (NHP ...
4 days ago · Politics of disease control: yellow fever and race in nineteenth century Rio de Janeiro Author(s): Chalhoub, Sidney Subject(s): Yellow fever -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Social aspects | Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Population | Public health -- Brazil | Epidemics -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century | Health and race.
