Sentences with phrase «caused by the mosquito»

-- ZIKA: Florida public health investigators have identified 10 additional Zika cases in the Miami area, bringing the total to 14 in the first known outbreak of the virus to be caused by mosquitoes in the continental U.S., Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday.

Coming with a mosquito net covering the pram also maintain the health of your twin and protect them from the harmful diseases caused by the mosquitoes.

«Everyone was concentrating on Zika and ignoring that there could be other infections caused by mosquito bites.

Dengue fever is caused by a mosquito - transmitted flavivirus resembling Zika virus.

There is no specific medicine or vaccine to prevent or treat disease caused by the mosquito - borne virus.

Last week, Texas public health authorities announced a case of Zika virus infection likely caused by a mosquito bite.

Itch sensations can be short - lived, such as when they are caused by a mosquito bite, or they can be chronic, even lasting for years without relief.

Bed nets therefore remain one of the most cost - effective ways to reduce malaria transmission and are likely to be effective for vector - borne diseases caused by mosquito species that bite primarily at night.»

Caused by a mosquito - transmitted parasite, malaria kills over half a million people each year — most of them young children.

Given the information we have, potentially over a million cases of Zika caused by mosquito transmission versus two cases of sexual transmission, the additional risk appears small.

When the infected mosquito bites another susceptible animal, the larvae are deposited onto the animal's skin and enter the animal through the opening in the skin caused by the mosquito bite.

Keep your pet on a monthly preventative to protect them from parasitic diseases like heartworm (caused by mosquitoes), Lyme disease (caused by ticks), and flea allergy dermatitis (caused by fleas).

Heart worm is caused by mosquitoes, so any decent mosquito, tick and flea guard works for that.

Heartworm Prevention: Heartworms are caused by mosquitoes, therefore, it is imperative that your pet stay on heartworm prevention for life.

Heartworm disease (HWD), caused by the mosquito - borne nematode Dirofilaria immitis, is endemic in most areas of the United States, including urban areas where most of the U.S. population (about 80 %) lives.

Indoor as well as outdoor cats are at risk because this dangerous disease is caused by a mosquito bite.

Reports suggest that during the monsoon season, claims are increased by 10 percent because of water - borne illness and diseases caused by mosquitoes.

Not exact matches

Data from CDC's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System show that 96,075 diseases caused by flea, tick, and mosquito bites were reported in 2016, compared to just 27,388 diseases in 2004.

About 300 people have been killed by the disease, which is spread by mosquitoes and kills about 8 % of people who contract it since July 2017, causing concerns about an epidemic if the virus hits the country's densely populated cities.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

But once you've added diapers and sippy cups to your packing list, you have more than just your whims to consider when selecting a destination... That beach might be surrounded by jungle that's filled with malaria - carrying mosquitos; reliving that moment in history may involve trekking through territory that's politically unstable, and that fabled spot may be so high it'll cause altitude sickness.

Unlike Zika, Chikungunya, and Dengue, Malaria is a mosquito - borne illness caused by a parasite, not a virus.

Malaria is a mosquito - borne disease caused by a parasite.

Antihistamines have proved effective against the itch of mosquito bites, for example, but they do little to soothe the itching caused by kidney failure, liver disease or burns, says Matthias Ringkamp at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Zika virus, which spreads among humans via mosquitoes, causes illness characterized like many other viral infections by fever, rash and joint pain.

More than 40 percent of people around the world are at risk of being bitten by mosquitoes infected with the virus that causes Dengue fever and more than 100 million people are infected, according to eLife.

Malaria, a scourge on human society that still kills more than 400,000 people a year, is often thought to be of more modern origin — ranging from 15,000 to 8 million years old, caused primarily by one genus of protozoa, Plasmodium, and spread by anopheline mosquitoes.

The mosquito - borne disease caused by the Plasmodium parasite kills more than 700,000 people every year, the vast majority of them African children, and no vaccine has ever shown efficacy in trials.

Malaria is caused by a handful of species of parasites in the genus Plasmodium through the bite of mosquitos and remains a widespread vector - borne infectious disease, sickening almost half a billion people every year around the planet.

Dr James Logan's team has been awarded a three - year grant by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate how being infected with malaria could cause the mosquitoes to behave differently.

This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million deaths a year — is spread from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need in order to reproduce.

Leishmaniasis is caused by the protozoan leishmania parasites, which are transmitted by the bite of infected female phlebotomine sandflies — flies that are three times smaller than a mosquito.

In the hardest - hit countries, data from each country's department of health shows a striking drop in locally acquired cases, that is, ones caused by bites from local, infected mosquitoes.

aegypti mosquitoes in the U.S. is primarily caused by lifestyle and living infrastructure associated to socioeconomic conditions, these could be threatened by massive natural disasters, or any other event that disrupts current infrastructure,» they write.

Flaviviruses are the cause of diseases spread by mosquitoes (e.g., dengue fever and West Nile fever) and by ticks (e.g., Powassan virus disease and tick - borne encephalitis).

According to new research in the journal PLOS ONE by scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and Panama's government research institute, INDICASAT, mosquitoes in the genus Aedes, which carry a group of dangerous viruses causing yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika, invaded the crossroads of the Americas multiple times, by land and by sea.

The participants in the group with «explicit conditions» read an article with explicitly false information — the Zika epidemic in Brazil was caused by the release of genetically modified mosquitoes by a subsidiary of a pharmaceutical company that was hoping to profit from a future vaccine.

Other viral diseases spread by the same mosquitoes — including dengue and chikungunya — that have caused massive epidemics south of the U.S. border have triggered only small outbreaks in the United States.

Dengue is caused by four closely related viruses spread by mosquitoes.

But the mosquitoes biologically capable of transmitting the disease are found in about two - thirds of country, and public health authorities expect that there will be small clusters of Zika caused by those bugs.

Dengue fever is an infectious disease caused by virus and transmitted to persons by mosquitoes.

Malaria is caused by a single - celled parasite called Plasmodium that spreads from person to person through mosquito bites.

Dengue fever, caused by the dengue virus transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, is a serious global healthcare challenge which sees approximately 390 million infections annually.

In addition, by guarding their existing crops during the night, farmers are increasingly exposed to malaria carried by mosquitos and soil - based worms which cause elephantiasis.

When the dengue virus is transmitted to a healthy person, the change in the temperature of the host — from 28 degree Celsius in a mosquito to 37 degree Celsius in a human body — causes the virus to swell by 20 per cent.

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites that are transmitted to humans by a mosquito bite, leading to 219 million documented cases and 627,000 deaths worldwide in 2012.

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium, a microscopic parasite spread to humans by mosquitoes.

An estimated 220 million people are infected each year by malaria - causing Plasmodium parasites, which are transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito.

Infection is caused by the bite of a malaria - carrying mosquito, and 90 % of all deaths are in Africa, mostly amongst children.

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.