Diseases

Enfermedades

Mosquitoes

Mosquitos

Disease Vectors: Invertebrates or non-human vertebrates which transmit infective organisms from one host to another.

Vectors and Vector-borne Diseases

Vectores y enfermedades transmitidas por vectores

Assistant professor, mosquito-microbe interactions, UF/IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Vero Beach FL <a href="https://fmel.ifas.ufl.edu/faculty/eric-caragata/">FMEL profile</a>

Caragata, Eric P.

Mosquito-borne diseases

Enfermedades Transmitidas por Mosquitos

Malaria

St. Louis Encephalitis virus

Encefalitis de San Luis

West Nile encephalitis virus. Encephalitis caused by a virus of the Flaviviridae family. Causes West Nile fever, which is characterized by headache, fever, arthralgia, maculopapular rash, myalgia, lymphadenopathy and leukopenia. Transmitted and/or spread by mosquitoes from the genus Culex (family Culicidae).
Entry terms: Kunjin virus, West Nile flavivirus, WNV (West Nile virus), KUNV (Kunjin virus)
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West Nile Virus

Virus del oeste del Nilo 

Entry terms: Flavivirus febricis, YFV (Yellow fever virus)
Yellow fever is an&nbsp;acute infectious disease primarily of the tropics, caused by a virus and transmitted to man by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes and Haemagogus. The severe form is characterized by fever, hemolytic jaundice, and renal damage.

Yellow Fever Virus

This page lists useful information about the Zika virus. The primary focus of the science-based information and recommendations to be found here are ways you can reduce your exposure to mosquito bites and ways you can reduce the mosquito populations around your home and neighborhood.
Good sources of information about the disease in humans are the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/zika/">CDC</a>, <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/zikavirus.html">MedlinePlus</a> and <a href="https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/zika-virus">NIH</a>.
For current University of Florida information including communications, prevention tips, resources, and research, see the UF Zika Prevention website at <a href="http://zika.ufl.edu">http://zika.ufl.edu</a>.
<h2>UF/IFAS resources</h2>
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<li><a href="https://fmel.ifas.ufl.edu/general-information/zika/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Essential Information on the Zika Virus (FMEL)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mosquito.ifas.ufl.edu/Zika.htm">Mosquito Information: Zika</a></li>
<li><a href="http://zika.ufl.edu">UF Zika Preparedness and Guidelines</a></li>
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Entry terms:&nbsp;SPOV (Spondweni virus),&nbsp;ZIKV (Zika virus),&nbsp;Spondweni virus

Esta p&aacute;gina proporciona enlaces a recursos sobre el zika en espa&ntilde;ol del Laboratorio de Entomolog&iacute;a M&eacute;dica de Florida, los Centros para el Control de Enfermedades de EE. UU. y el directorio Medline Plus de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina.

Enfermedades Transmitidas por Mosquitos

Narrower Topics

Encefalitis de San Luis

Malaria

Virus del oeste del Nilo

Virus del Zika

Yellow Fever Virus

Publications

La Fiebre Chikungunya