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Mosquitoes Can Carry These Viral Diseases

People who spend a lot of time outdoors should be aware that pesky mosquitoes can carry a range of viral diseases that could be deadly.

Most people have already heard about the correlation between mosquitoes and West Nile virus. However, there are numerous other diseases mosquitoes bring that sadly, everyone are unaware of. It is a sad fact that if the news does not report a person contracting a mosquito carried disease, most people wouldn’t even know the existence of these diseases at all. Mosquitoes are one of the dirtiest and deadliest creatures man is aware of.

The following include some of the viral diseases mosquitoes can transmit: – dengue fever – epidemic polyarthritis – Japanese encephalitis – LaCross encephalitis – Rift Valley fever – Ross River Fever – St. Louis encephalitis – West Nile virus – yellow fever

There are many more types of diseases mosquitoes can bring; these are just some of them. Mosquitoes are also the sole cause of malaria, the world’s leading cause of premature death.

Over 5.3 million deaths occur each year because of the mosquito genus Anopheles. They are the mosquitoes that carry the malaria virus. Children under the age of 5 make up most of these deaths.

Almost all mosquitoes are capable of carrying the filariasis worm, the cause of the disease elephantiasis. Approximately 40 million people worldwide are currently dealing with some form of this disease.

Although these statistics seem scary, they are not the most dreaded part of the mosquito problem. As we grow older, mosquito bites are often undetected. In children, mosquito bites often cause their skin to swell up and turn red. In adults, however, they tend to build immunity to these bites.

True, some types of mosquito types can’t be ridded of; the mosquitoes can be warded off or repelled using simple mosquito repellents and nets. Keep these pests away from your body and stay healthy, to prevent catching diseases from these dreaded insects.

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