Is there such thing as mosquito disease?
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When they're dead they're harmless.\n\nMosquitos are responsible for malaria, the disease that kills more than any other disease.\n\nA female mosquite needs protein to breed which she obtains from blood, it's during the process of drawing blood that the malarial infection is spread.
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No. It is usually a sign of inbreeding. It can be accompanied by a number of other health problems depending upon the species in which it is occurring.
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Yes - dengue fever, malaria, hepatitis
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This is as Serious Question, especially when tackling West Nile Virus, Malaria, Dengue, all vector borne disease.\n\nGoogle this on the web, there was a recent report about Rain and Butterflies (Slightly larger than bugs) They are also frighten of rain, as it is dangerous to them, the relative size of the water droplet, would harm them.\n\nBugs, usually try to hid from the rain, going into overhangs,  under large leaves, seeking shelter when they can find it.\n\nGood Question.  Next point, ever wonder where Flies goes after dark.
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it's becoz some (like maleria for e.g.) can survive in mosquitoes and mosquitoes act as complementary to complete their cycle.\n\nothers (HIV for e.g.)either would not survive in them or meet a dead end..
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Yes it is, I know because my brothers once had dengue fever. my other brother almost died because of this. luckily we have friends to pray for them. Eat some nutricious foods to have strong resistence, and you will not be affected by dengue.
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The virus can not live in the mosquito's body.  If that were true there would be alot more HIV cases world wide
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Among the more commonly known human diseases caused by arboviridae are:\nYellow Fever (NOT Malaria)\nDengue fever\nWest Nile disease\nseveral kinds of encephalitis.
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No, but they are both spread by mosquitoes. Yellow fever is spread by Aedes mosquitoes, but malaria is spread by Anopheles mosquitoes. Yellow fever is caused by a member of the Flavivirus family. Malaria is caused by parasites: Plasmodium falciparum, P. malariae, P. ovale\n\nYellow fever is vaccine-preventable. Malaria does not have a vaccine, but there are some prophylactic drugs and disease treatments.
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It is extremely unlikely.  The reason is because Mosquitos are are not part of the HIV life cycle.  In order for a person to actually be infected, the Mosquito would have to first take blood from an infected individual (who is at the stage when enough HIV particles are present in blood) and it would then have to get into the Mosquito's saliva and survive until the Mosquito went to bite another individual.  Again extremely unlikely.
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Yep - you can obtain it from :\n\nhttp://www.mosquitone.co.uk
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Mosquito or frog eggs
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They carry tiny amounts of blood from person to person, so they could transmit diseases. Yes, any mosquito that bites could spread disease.\n\nIt is true that it takes about a hundred times more virus particles to transmit HIV as compared to hepatitis B, so in a sense it would take about a thousand infested mosquito bites to get HIV that way.  It would be much likely to catch other diseases such as encephalitis, dengue fever, or malaria than HIV from mosquitos.
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parasite (like intestinal worms or mosquito).
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There is no such disease in the medical literature.\n\nThere is however a fictional account of somebody with Reuben's disease:\n\nhttp://nothorse.org/archives/Fullstory
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I thought you were making up this word!  lol  My apologies for the assumption.\n\n"Chikungunya is a rare form of viral fever caused by an alphavirus that is spread by mosquito bites from the Aedes aegypti mosquito."\n\nI don't know if tsunami necessarily equals chikungunya but it doesn't surprise me that something like that would crop up afterwards.  Mosquitoes breed and multiply where there's standing water.  What happens after a tsunami where water floods areas where no water was or should be?  It stands arounds until it is either pumped out or evaporates. \n\nAs this is a rare malady, a more common disease to occur is malaria.
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If a disease has an insect or animal vector, the spread of the disease will be controlled by the spread of the vector.  For example, you'd be hard pressed to find malaria in Switzerland, because the climate does not support the type of mosquitoes that carry malaria.  Similarly, we have watched the spread of bird flu from China to the rest of the world along the paths of migrating wildfowl.  Dengue most likely came to the US with mosquitoes inside tires brought here from Asia for recycling.\n\nIf a disease is carried only by humans, then it is spread as humans move.  Even some insect borne diseases are affected by humans.  For example The Black Death (bubonic plague) spread out into Europe from seaports.  It was carried in fleas, on rats, in the holds of ships.  Cholera spread around the world as people with the disease deposited their wastes in places with bad sewer systems.\n\nAIDS is actually two different but very similar diseases which arose in two parts of Africa.  It spread throughout Africa along major routes of human migration.  It is still less common north of the Sahara Desert than south of it.  \n\nAIDS is not really limited be geography because it involves human behaviors of choice.  If I sneeze into my hand and then open a door and you come by a half hour later and touch that door knob and then touch the mucous membranes of your face without washing in between, you will most likely get my cold or flu or whatever.  If I have AIDS, however, you won't catch it.  AIDS is spread by sexual contact and activities where blood moves from person to person, such as sharing needles used for injecting drugs and receiving blood donations (although blood is screened now).  This is why Ebola is still in Africa and AIDS is not.\n\nThe spread of AIDS throughout Africa has more to do with political (war) and socioeconomic conditions that encouraged the mass migrations of people, primarily out of the jungles into the cities.  In addition to bringing diseases into enormous new populations, which would have even encouraged easily transmissable diseases like measles, the behaviors encouraged by having large populations of males without access to women of their own tribes to marry and large populations of women with no way to support themselves besides prostitution really kicked the disease in the butt.\n\nIt's also no accident that in the West, the disease was traced back to Gaetan Dugas, an Air Canada flight attendant.  Although some now dispute this, it is true that Dugas was sexually promiscuous even after he knew he had AIDS and in fact was displaying the tumors of Kaposi's sarcoma.  If anyone could help AIDS cross geographic boundaries, it would be someone who traveled a lot.