PB HLTH 150B Study Guide - Final Guide: Chikungunya, Lyme Disease, Microstrategy
30 Nov 2018
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Vector-borne disease: vectors are insects (ticks, fleas, black flies, sandflies, mosquitoes, files etc. ) that carry infectious agents including parasites, bacteria and virus, vectors transmit numerous diseases to humans: parasitic vector-borne diseases, arboviral diseases, and bacterial and rickettsia diseases. Crepuscular (active at dusk or dawn): culex---west nile, jap encephalitis, st. l encephalitis, filariasis. Diurnal (active at day): (chikungunya)aedes ---yellow fever, dengue , Aedes vectors have perfectly adapted to human habitat and behavior: increased global warming, increased global trade and travel, unplanned urbanization, migration, poverty, environmental, degradation. W. c. gorgas vs fred l soper approaches to mosquito control. Gorgas (1854-1920 yellow fever warrior) was a pioneer of chemical-free mosquito source reduction (cuba and panama: he saw the potential for mosquito colonization in every nook and cranny of natural and urban spaces. Soper: (1893-1977: soper eradicated of a malaria-carrying african import, anopheles gambiae, from northeast brazil in the late 1930s, given the authority of martial law for his efforts.
