Mosquito-borne diseases or mosquito-borne illnesses are diseases caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites transmitted by mosquitoes. Nearly 700 million people get a mosquito-borne illness each year resulting in over one million deaths.[1]
Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes include malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever,[1] filariasis, tularemia, dirofilariasis, Japanese encephalitis, Saint Louis encephalitis, Western equine encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis,[2] Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Ross River fever, Barmah Forest fever, La Crosse encephalitis, and Zika fever,[2] as well as newly detected Keystone virus and Rift Valley fever.
We had a cure. We nearly irradicated the mosquito, but decided that an unproven bullshit story about thin shelled eagle eggs trumped human lives. Millions every year.
All we have to do right now is get our old and infirm through until we find a vaccine. We won’t loose more than we loose in drowning accidents every year in the mean time.
While we protect all of our over-70 population from this, 1.8 million of them will die anyway. Probably 30% of those who died in the nursing home in Washington were going to die this year of their underlying illnesses.
everybody dies. If an 85-year-old with COPD dies this year from pnemonia caused by CV, they won’t die next year from pnemonia caused by the flu.