Editing Mosquito (section)

=== Vectors of disease ===

{{Main|Mosquito-borne disease}}

Mosquitoes are [[Vector (epidemiology)|vectors]] for many disease-causing [[microorganism]]s including [[bacteria]], [[virus]]es, and [[protozoa]]n parasites. Nearly 700 million people acquire a [[mosquito-borne illness]] each year, resulting in over 725,000 deaths.<ref name="EBMED2014">{{cite web |title=Mosquito as Deadly Menace |url=https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/mosquito_as_deadly_menace#.Yweo2_DM88I.link |publisher=[[Pfizer]] |access-date=10 December 2023 |archive-date=25 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220825170028/https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/mosquito_as_deadly_menace#.Yweo2_DM88I.link |url-status=live }}</ref> Common mosquito-borne viral diseases include [[yellow fever]]<ref name="WHO2 014">{{cite web |title=Yellow fever Fact sheet N°100 |url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs100/en/ |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] |access-date=23 February 2014 |date=May 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219011908/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs100/en/ |archive-date=19 February 2014}}</ref> and [[dengue fever]] transmitted mostly by ''[[Aedes aegypti]]''.<ref name="WHO 2009">{{cite book |url=http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241547871_eng.pdf |title=Dengue Guidelines for Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention and Control |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-92-4-154787-1 |access-date=2013-08-13 |archive-date=2012-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017230435/http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241547871_eng.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> Parasitic diseases transmitted by mosquitoes include [[malaria]] and [[lymphatic filariasis]]. The ''[[Plasmodium]]'' parasites that cause malaria are carried by female ''[[Anopheles]]'' mosquitoes. Lymphatic filariasis, the main cause of [[elephantiasis tropica|elephantiasis]], is spread by a wide variety of mosquitoes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lymphatic Filariasis |url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs102/en/ |publisher=[[World Health Organization|World Health Organisation]] |access-date=24 August 2011 |archive-date=5 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505163529/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs102/en/|url-status=live}}</ref> A bacterial disease spread by ''Culex'' and ''Culiseta'' mosquitoes is [[tularemia]].<ref name="pmid21776596">{{cite journal |last1=Muslu |first1=H. |last2=Kurt |first2=O. |last3=Özbilgin |first3=A. |title=[Evaluation of mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) identified in Manisa province according to their breeding sites and seasonal differences] |language=tr |journal=Turkiye Parazitolojii Dergisi |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=100–104 |year=2011 |pmid=21776596 |doi=10.5152/tpd.2011.25 |doi-access=free }}</ref>