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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

. “When these locally acquired cases occur, … we want to act on them pretty quickly so that it does not become an endemic infection in our region,” said Aiman Halai, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s Vector-Borne Disease Unit.

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Springtime Infectious Diseases: From Spring Fever to Lyme Disease

Gideon

Schmidt, “Pollen Overload: Seasonal Allergies in a Changing Climate”, Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. Mead, “Meteorological Influences on the Seasonality of Lyme Disease in the United States”, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. e55-e55, 2001. Available: 10.1542/peds.108.3.e55