What diseases are borne by mosquitoes?

Trevor
19/01/2013

Mosquitoes cause more human suffering than any other organism with over one million people dying from mosquito-borne diseases every year.  Mosquito vectored diseases include protozoan diseases, i.e. malaria, filarial diseases such as dog heartworm and viruses such as dengue, encephalitis and yellow fever.  In Asia more than 50,000 cases of Japanese encephalitis (JE) are reported annually.

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