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Insect vectors

Insect vectors for disease

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Lice-borne disease; from lice feces rubbed on open wounds; causes fever, stupor, rash, hemorrhage Epidemic typhus
Lice-borne disease Rickettsia prowazekii
from rat fleas; causes buboes to form on skin; also known as the "pneumonic plague" Bubonic plague
flea-borne disease Yersinia pestis
disease from the bite of a deer fly Tularemia
disease from the of the sand fly Leishmaniasis
also known as "Tyrpanosomiasis"; bite from the tsetse fly African Sleeping Sickness
also known as "river blindness" or "river fiver"; bite from the black fly Onchocerciasis
bite from the Anopheles mosquito Malaria
bite from the Anopheles mosquito Plasmodium vivax Plasmodium malariae Plasmodium falciparum
bite from the Culex mosquito West Nile Encephalitis
"Break bone fever"; bite from the Aedes mosquito; causes fever, rash, severe muscle and joint pain Dengue fever
bite from the Aedes mosquito; found in the lymph nodes, liver, spleen, kidney and heart; causes internal hemorrhage Yellow fever
disease caused by the Wucheria bancrofti (filarial worm); from an infected mosquito Elephantiasis
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