Sentences with phrase «carries avian malaria»
Only one species, Culex quinquefasciatus, carries avian malaria and avian pox, diseases so deadly to the native birds, and so virulent, that they have contributed to extinction of entire species of birds.
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In a nightmarish incident on Maui in the 1820s, an American ship arriving from Mexico dumped water contaminated with larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus, the mosquito that carries avian pox and malaria.
It is threatened by climate change, which is causing mosquitoes that carry introduced diseases — including avian pox and malaria — to move into the honeycreeper's higher - elevations refuges.