DISEASE VECTOR/ HOW PATHOGEN DESCRIPTION SYMPTOMS TREATMENT

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Malaria Anopheles Plasmodium When this mosquito bites you, the parasite is Shaking chills, There’s no vaccine
Mosquito parasite released into your bloodstream. Once the high fever, available to prevent
(female) parasites are inside your body, they travel to profuse sweating malaria. If you are
the liver, where they mature. After several headache, traveling to an area where
days, the mature parasites enter the vomiting malaria is common you
bloodstream and begin to infect red blood may be prescribed
cells. Within 48 to 72 hours, the parasites medications to prevent
inside the red blood cells multiply, causing the the disease. Sleeping
infected cells to burst open. The parasites under a mosquito net,
continue to infect red blood cells, resulting in covering your skin or
symptoms that occur in cycles that last two to using bug sprays may also
three days at a time. Malaria is typically found help prevent infection.
in tropical and subtropical climates where the
parasites can live.
Dengue Aedes aegypti The dengue Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical High fever, There is no vaccine to
fever mosquitoes virus disease. Recovery generally takes two to seven headache, prevent dengue fever.
(female) days. In a small number of cases, the disease vomiting, The best way to prevent
develops into severe dengue, also known muscle and joint the disease is to prevent
as dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting pains, and a bites by infected
in bleeding, low levels of blood characteristic mosquitoes
platelets and blood plasma leakage skin rash
Yellow Aedes aegypti The yellow This virus replicates in the blood and tissues Fever, chills, loss A safe and
fever mosquitoes fever virus and can damage the body's vital organs. The of appetite, effective vaccine against
(female) liver is often affected. When liver function nausea muscle yellow fever exists, and
declines, the skin and eyes become yellow, a pains, headaches some countries require
condition known as jaundice, and the body's liver damage. vaccinations for travelers.
ability to form blood clots is lowered. Damage A single dose of the
to the heart, brain, and other vital organs can vaccine gives life long
cause shock and coma. protection.