Mosquito Borne Diseases

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Diseases of concern in Florida: 

Some are locally acquired, virus passed to a person or animal by a mosquito here at home. The virus cannot be spread to other people or animals.


West Nile Virus - Eastern Equine Encephalitis - St. Louis Encephalitis


west nile

 

Diseases that are typically imported:

Person gets the virus from a mosquito while traveling outside the US and brings the virus back home with them. These can become locally transmitted if a local mosquito takes a blood meal from a person who has the active virus, then later bites someone else:

  Zika - Dengue - Chikungunya - Yellow Fever 

Zika and Mosquito Control