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2. Mosquito-borne disease - Wikipedia

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   Mosquito-borne flaviviruses also encode viral antagonists to the innate immune system in order to cause persistent infection in mosquitoes and a broad spectrum of diseases in humans. [21] The data on transmissibility via insect vectors of hepatitis C virus, also belonging to family Flaviviridae (as well as for hepatitis B virus, belonging to ...

3. Disease vector - Wikipedia

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   The mosquito would be considered a disease vector. Several articles, recent to early 2014, warn that human activities are spreading vector-borne zoonotic diseases. [ a ] Several articles were published in the medical journal The Lancet , and discuss how rapid changes in land use , trade globalization , climate change and "social upheaval" are ...

4. List of diseases spread by arthropods - Wikipedia

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   Ticks and lice form another large group of invertebrate vectors. The bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme Disease, is transmitted by ticks and members of the bacterial genus Rickettsia are transmitted by lice. For example, the human body louse transmits the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii which causes epidemic typhus.

5. Oropouche virus is spreading — and U.S. travelers have been ...

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   Oropouche virus can be spread by infected midges (small flies) or mosquitoes. (Getty Creative) ... is a virus that causes symptoms like fever, headache, joint pain and rash. Less common symptoms ...

6. 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 ...

7. List of parasites of humans - Wikipedia

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   Main article: Human parasite Endoparasites Protozoan organisms Common name of organism or disease Latin name (sorted) Body parts affected Diagnostic specimen Prevalence Source/Transmission (Reservoir/Vector) Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis and Acanthamoeba keratitis (eye infection) Acanthamoeba spp. eye, brain, skin culture worldwide contact lenses cleaned with contaminated tap water ...