Sentences with phrase «passed by infected mosquitoes»

Today, we know that dengue is indeed passed by infected mosquitoes, which tend to occupy areas with large amounts of standing water.

Heartworms are uncommon in cats, but can easily be passed by an infected mosquito.

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The virus is spread by two types of the mosquito species Aedes, the Aegypi and the Albopictus; by infected pregnant women passing it on to their fetus; and through sexual transmission.

The study's infected monkeys had very little active virus in their saliva, compared to the amounts typically passed into people or monkeys by mosquito bites.

Heartworms are spread by mosquitoes, which pick up the immature stages from an infected dog, and then pass them on to a different dog when they move on for another blood meal.

For instance, an infected horse can not pass West Nile virus to a human, but the horse and the human might be infected with the virus by the same mosquito.

The disease is passed from infected dogs to other dogs by mosquitoes.

The mosquito spreads heartworm disease by biting an infected dog, drinking in the heartworm and then passing on the worm by biting another dog.