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Aedes aegypti (UK: / ˈ iː d iː z /; US: / 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.
Although dengue fever has a global incidence of 50–100 million cases, only several hundreds of thousands of these cases are life-threatening. The geographic prevalence of the disease can be examined by the spread of Aedes aegypti. [60] Over the last twenty years, there has been a geographic spread of the disease.
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 ...
The illness is spread through mosquito bites, typically from mosquitoes in places where humans live. ... Lab technician Alexandria Watkins processes a sample of Aedes Aegypti mosquitos to see if ...
Dengue is typically spread through infected female Aedes aegypti (Egyptian tiger) mosquitoes that thrive in stagnant water, passing from one person to another through mosquito bites. The disease ...
In recent years, the invasive Aedes aegypti has aggressively grown in numbers. These bloodsuckers need only a teaspoon of water to reproduce and, unlike the Culex , have an affinity for biting at ...
Zika is primarily spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, [38] and can also be transmitted through sexual contact [39] or blood transfusions. [40] The basic reproduction number (R 0, a measure of transmissibility) of Zika virus has been estimated to be between 1.4 and 6.6 . [41]
Different species of mosquitoes have evolved different methods of identifying target hosts. Study of a domestic form and an animal-biting form of the mosquito Aedes aegypti showed that the evolution of preference for human odour is linked to increases in the expression of the olfactory receptor AaegOr4.