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Aedes aegypti (UK pronunciation: / ˈ iː d iː z /; US pronunciation: / ˈ eɪ d z / or / ˈ eɪ d iː z / from Greek αηδής: "hateful" and / eɪ ˈ dʒ ɪ p t i / from Latin, meaning "of Egypt"), the yellow fever mosquito, is a mosquito that can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, Mayaro and yellow fever viruses, and other disease agents.
Aedes (also known as the tiger mosquito [1]) is a genus of mosquitoes originally found in tropical and subtropical zones, but now found on all continents except Antarctica. Some species have been spread by human activity : Aedes albopictus , a particularly invasive species , was spread to the Americas , including the United States , in the ...
Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) - yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) Aedes aegypti formosus (Walker, 1848) Aedes africanus (Theobald, 1901) yellow fever mosquito; Aedes agrihanensis Bohart, 1957; Aedes albopictus Skuse, 1895 - forest day mosquito, Asian tiger mosquito, tiger mosquito; Aedes alcasidi Huang, 1972
Aedes aegypti ( Linnaeus , 1762) Stegomyia is a large subgenus of the mosquito genus Aedes with 131 species [ 1 ] classified in six species groups (group uncertain for one species), two groups of which are further divided into subgroups.
Dengue is a vector-borne disease usually carried by mosquitoes, [59] the same species of yellow-fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) utilized in Operation Big Buzz in 1955. Dengue 2 killed 158 people that year in Cuba, including 101 children under 15. [57]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday to combat bird flu, which has spread to more than a quarter of all the state's dairies in the last month and infected 34 state ...
By Leah Douglas and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -California's public health department reported a possible case of bird flu in a child with mild respiratory symptoms on Tuesday, but said there was ...
Common mosquito-borne viral diseases include yellow fever [101] and dengue fever transmitted mostly by Aedes aegypti. [102] Parasitic diseases transmitted by mosquitoes include malaria and lymphatic filariasis. The Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria are carried by female Anopheles mosquitoes.