Mosquito-borne Diseases

Dengue, Dog Heartworm, EEE, Malaria, SLE, WNV

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Anopheles gambiae mosquito, a malarial vector (photo by James Gathany).  Click on the image to access the Public Health Image Library of the CDC for this and other images.

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Why Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit AIDS

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Dengue Fever Links

• Dengue Fever - NJ State Health Fact Sheet

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Dengue website

• Wikipedia

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Dog Heartworm

• Dog Heartworm

• American Heartworm Society - Canine Heartworm Disease

• American Veterinary Medical Association

• Wikipedia

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Eastern Equine Encephalitis

• Questions Regarding Eastern Equine Encephalitis and Horses

• New Jersey Approach to Encephalitis Prevention

• Eastern Equine Encephalitis - NJ State Health Fact Sheet

• Wikipedia

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Malaria - 1992 NJMCA Symposium

• History of Malaria in New Jersey

• Malaria in New Jersey - 1991

• Indigenous Malaria Cases - Monmouth County 1991

• The Impact of an Indigenous Case of Malaria on Camden County

• The Biology of Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say

Malaria Links

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Malaria website

• Malaria Foundation International - the most common and deadly parasitic disease in the world.

• Human Diseases and Insect Vectors - (From Virginia Tech, also covers Plague, Lyme, Scabies. and other arboviral diseases)

• Malaria - NJ State Health Fact Sheet

• Dr. Seuss's Ann Anopheles (from WW2, intended for soldier information sheets, historical)

• Wikipedia

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St. Louis Encephalitis Links

• Regarding the recent outbreak of SLE (mosquito control applies as well to West Nile)

• SLE Fact Sheet

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) SLE Website

• Encephalitis outbreak summaries including SLE for the US.

• Wikipedia

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West Nile Fever  - Species List - Identifying Crows and Hawks - Kestrel ID and Notification

 

New Jersey:

• Rutgers Surveillance reports

• Culex pipiens Fact Sheet and Species Account

• West Nile Test Results

• West Nile Alert and Facts Sheets - Protocols, guidelines, information by the NJ Department of Health.

• NJDEP Office of Mosquito Control Coordination & New Jersey State Mosquito Control Commission

• NJ Dept Agriculture West Nile Information - Equine oriented.

Links to National and State Surveillance reports

 

From the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):

General Arboviral Information and Encephalitis

• Arboviral Encephalitides

• Information on Arboviral Encephalitides

• Guidelines for Arbovirus Surveillance Programs in the US.  Provides epidemiological and environmental backgrounds to St. Louis, Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis. (Requires Acrobat Reader - download free from http://www.adobe.com)

West Nile Fever

• West Nile Virus Homepage

• Frequently Asked Questions about West Nile.

• A West Nile outbreak in Romania.

• Hubalek's overview of West Nile fever outbreaks in Europe, arthropod vectors, transmission cycles and dead end hosts.

From the US Geological Survey:

• USGS West Nile Links

• National Biological Information Infrastructure - good media links at end of article.

• West Nile Virus Maps from National Atlas (USGS) (archive for 2000)

• USGS Virus Maps

From the US Department of Agriculture:

• APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)- West Nile Virus

• West Nile Virus (WNV) in Equids in the Northeastern United States in 2000 (pdf report)

How to Use Repellents Safely:

• Using Insect Repellents Safely - From EPA

• Mosquito Control Methods - from our own website.