• Question: which insect transmit the dangerous disease in the world?

    Asked by Joshua Da Edwardo to Caroline on 5 Jul 2017.
    • Photo: Caroline Ogwang

      Caroline Ogwang answered on 5 Jul 2017:


      Hi Joshua,

      Various insects have been found to transmit a number of diseases which can be dangerous (lead to illness or even death in some cases).
      Examples of these insects and the diseases that they transmit include:
      • mosquitoes – malaria, chikungunya virus, dengue fever, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, lymphatic filariasis.
      • tsetse flies- sleeping sickness
      • sand flies – leishmaniasis
      • Lice- relapsing fever, typhus, plague
      • Ticks – tick-borne relapsing fever, Q fever, the tick-borne spotted fevers, tularemia

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