Vector-borne Disease

Vector-borne Disease

Disease in humans carried from another warm-blooded animal by an insect such as a mosquito, tick or sandfly. In 1877 scientists showed for the first time that blood-sucking insects were able to carry disease from one warm-blooded animal to another.  This is called vector-borne disease.  This is called vector-borne disease.

Infectious Diseases Potentially Spread by Global Warming

• Dengue fever
• Malaria
• Yellow fever
• Chickungunya fever
• Epidemic polyarthritis
• West Nile fever
• St. Louis encephalitis
• Lyme disease
• Ehrlichiosis
• Plague
• Loaiasis
• Leishmaniasis
• Kyasanur Forest disease
• La Crosse encephalitis
• Eastern equine encephalitis
• Japanese encephalitis
• Oropouche
• Western equine encephalitis
• Venezuelan equine encephalitis
• Onchocerciasis