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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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California Dengue Cases Prompt Swift Response From Public Health Officials

KFF Health News

Then, in October 2023, an email came from the Pasadena Public Health Department: A person in the city had contracted California’s first-known case of dengue from a local mosquito. The Aedes mosquitoes spread the disease by biting an infected person and then biting a previously uninfected person. .