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Can you name the top arthropods that are vectors for diseases?
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Last updated: June 23, 2023
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First submittedJune 23, 2023
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Notorious vector for the parasite plasmodium that causes Malaria
Anopheles Moquitoes
Vector for viruses such as Zika, yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, and Japanese encephalitus.
Aedes Moquitoes
Potential vector of Rift Valley fever virus
Mansonia Moquitoes
Can carry West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis, St Louis encephalitis and filariasis.
Culex Moquitoes
Known vector of West Nile virus, and Eastern equine encephalomyelitis.
Coquilletidia Moquitoes
Occurs in Central and South America. Have conspicuous ornamented, shining scales.
Sabethes Moquitoes
Vector of the parasitic protozoa genus Trypanosoma which causes Human African trypanosomiasis: African sleeping sickness.
Tsetse Fly
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Vector of the bacteria that causes lime disease, relapsing fever, rickettsial disease and tularemia.
Tick
Genus of fly that causes onchocerciasis or river blindness.
Black Fly
Genus of fly that causes Leishmaniasis and phlebotomus fever.
Sandfly
Type of arthropod that is a vector of Typhus and Louse-borne relapsing fever
Lice
Can spread tungiasis and the plague.
Flea
Vector for Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis)
Triatome bugs
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