People who spend a lot of time out-of-doors should be conscious that annoying mosquitoes can bring an array of viral diseases that could threaten your life.

Most people have already heard about the correlation between mosquitoes & West Nile virus. However, there are various other diseases mosquitoes bring that the general population does not know about. Sadly, if the news does not report a person contracting a mosquito transmitted disease, most people would not even know the existence of these diseases at all. Mosquitoes are one of the dirtiest and deadliest insects known to man.

The following is a list of some of the viral diseases mosquitoes can bring: – 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.

The mosquito genus Anopheles cause over 5.3 million deaths to occur each year. They are the mosquitoes that bring the malaria virus. Children under the age of 5 make up most of these fatalities.

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

Although these facts seem terrible, they are not the most dreaded part of the mosquito problem. As we age, mosquito bites are often undetected. In children, mosquito bites often cause their skin to swell up & turn red. In adults, however, they tend to build resistance 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 repellents. Keep these creatures away from your body & stay healthy, to prevent acquiring diseases from these terrible insects.

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