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2. Mosquito-borne disease - Wikipedia

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   A mosquito's period of feeding is often undetected; the bite only becomes apparent because of the immune reaction it provokes. When a mosquito bites a human, it injects saliva and anti-coagulants. With the initial bite to an individual, there is no reaction, but with subsequent bites, the body's immune system develops antibodies. The bites ...

3. Mosquito - Wikipedia

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   The mosquito's saliva is transferred to the host during the bite, and can cause an itchy rash. In addition, blood-feeding species can ingest pathogens while biting, and transmit them to other hosts. Those species include vectors of parasitic diseases such as malaria and filariasis, and arboviral diseases such as yellow fever and dengue fever ...

4. The bite is on: What to know about the viruses ... - AOL

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   The best way to avoid mosquito bites is to use bug sprays with DEET. The CDC also recommends Picaridin (known as KBR 3023 and icaridin outside the U.S.). The sprays won’t kill the bugs, but they ...

5. 11 common bug bites — and photos to help you identify them

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   Thankfully, while bug bites can be annoying, most are not seriously harmful for humans, Kassouf says. Depending on how often you scratch at them, the worst of the discomfort will occur in the ...

6. As mosquito-borne illnesses spread, here's how to tell West ...

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   The viruses that cause all three illnesses are transmitted to humans via mosquito bite. ... Patients with severe illness often need to be hospitalized and receive additional supportive treatments ...

7. Mosquito bite allergy - Wikipedia

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   Mosquito bite allergies, also termed hypersensitivity to mosquito bites, are excessive reactions of varying severity to mosquito bites. They are allergic hypersensitivity reactions caused by the non-toxic allergenic proteins contained in the saliva injected by a female mosquito (male mosquitos do not take blood-meals) at the time it takes its ...

8. 7 ways to avoid (or at least diminish) mosquito bites this ...

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   How to avoid mosquito bites. 1. ... “Five-gallon buckets are often a source of standing water where mosquitoes can breed. ... Some mosquitoes can bite through thin clothing, so spraying with an ...

9. List of diseases spread by arthropods - Wikipedia

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   Either via their bite, as in the case of malaria spread by mosquitoes, or via their faeces, as in the case of Chagas' Disease spread by Triatoma bugs or epidemic typhus spread by human body lice. Many invertebrates are responsible for transmitting diseases.