subject: Mosquitoes Can Bring These Viral Sicknesses [print this page] People who spend a lot of time out of doors should be aware that pesky mosquitoes can carry an array of viral illnesses that could be life threatening.
Most people have already heard about the correlation between mosquitoes and West Nile virus. However, there are numerous other diseases mosquitoes carry that sadly, everyone are unaware of. Sadly, if the news does not report a person contracting a mosquito transmitted disease, nearly everyone would not even know the existence of these diseases at all. Mosquitoes are one of the dirtiest and deadliest creatures man has discovered.
The following is a list of some of the deadly diseases mosquitoes can transmit: - dengue fever - epidemic poly arthritis - Japanese encephalitis - LaCross encephalitis - Rift Valley fever - Ross River Fever - St. Louis encephalitis - West Nile virus - yellow fever
There are many more types of illnesses mosquitoes can bring. These are just some of them. Mosquitoes are also the sole carrier of malaria, the world's primary cause of early demise.
The mosquito genus Anopheles cause over 5.3 million fatalities to occur each year. They are the mosquitoes that bring the malaria virus. Kids below the age of 5 make up most of these fatalities.
Almost all mosquitoes are capable of carrying the filariasis worm, the cause of the illness elephantiasis. Approximately 40 million people the world over are currently dealing with some form of this illness.
Even though these statistics seem terrible, they are not the most terrifying part of the mosquito problem. As people grow older, mosquito bites are often undetected. In children, mosquito bites often cause their skin to swell up & turn red. In full grown individuals, however, they tend to build immunity to these bites.
True, some types of mosquito types can't be rid of; the mosquitoes can be warded off or repelled using simple mosquito nets and repellants. Keep these creatures away from your body & stay healthy, to prevent acquiring sick from these terrible insects.
