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How we monitor invasive mosquitoes and stop them spreading in the UK

UK Health Security

The increasing number of cases of dengue and malaria that we are seeing at the moment in the UK are travel-related, so people have picked them up when visiting countries where mosquito-borne illnesses are transmitted. This has contributed to the spread of vector-borne diseases to areas where they were previously not present, including the UK.

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Springtime Infectious Diseases: From Spring Fever to Lyme Disease

Gideon

Available: 10.1016/s1473-3099(09)70069-6 (9) “ Lyme disease: Transmission “, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD), 2020. “, Medscape.com, 2019. Online] (10) S.

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Chagas Disease

Gideon

If you have a GIDEON account, click here to explore our Chagas disease outbreak map. An estimated 8 million people are currently infected with the disease(12). Vector-borne disease transmission is exceedingly rare in the United States, with 28 cases documented between 1955 and 2015 (13). 164-169, 2019.

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Plague Tales: Yersinia Pestis

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Between 2019 and 2020 there were at least 5 cases of Plague in China linked to eating marmot meat and a few others of unknown origin. 357-370, 2019. 357-370, 2019. 25546-25554, 2019. 1903797116 [5] P Mackowiak, P Sehdev, “The Origin of Quarantine”, Clinical Infectious Diseases , vol. Proc Natl Acad Sci , vol.