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Prevalence of malaria in 2009. A. aegypti only and dengue distribution in 2006. Mosquito-borne diseases or mosquito-borne illnesses are diseases caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites transmitted by mosquitoes. Nearly 700 million people contract mosquito-borne illnesses each year, resulting in more than a million deaths.
episodes. The five main frog-like aliens in the first opening of the series. From left to right: Tamama, Dororo, Kururu, Giroro and Keroro. Sgt. Frog, also known as Sergeant Keroro and originally titled as Keroro Gunso, is a Japanese television series produced and animated by Sunrise Inc. The series centers around the attempted invasion of ...
The Mosquito Coast (also known as the Mosquitia or Mosquito Shore) is an area along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras. It was named after the local Miskito Nation and was long dominated by British interests and known as the Mosquito Kingdom. From 1860 suzerainty of the area was transferred to Nicaragua with the name ...
The two most dreaded words in Buffalo have surfaced again." For Buffalo fans of a certain age, it brought back a rush of stomach-churning memories from the '90s. For younger fans, it became their ...
Aedes aegypti is a 4-to-7-millimetre-long ( 32 to 128 in), dark mosquito which can be recognized by white markings on its legs and a marking in the form of a lyre on the upper surface of its thorax. Females are larger than males. Microscopically females possess small palps tipped with silver or white scales, and their antennae have sparse short ...
The adults are relatively large flies, with lengths of 0.5–1.5 centimetres ( 1⁄4 – 5⁄8 in), [5] and have a recognizable shape, or bauplan, which makes them easy to distinguish from other flies. Tsetse have large heads, distinctly separated eyes, and unusual antennae.
On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...
The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive -ito) [2] is Spanish and Portuguese for little fly. [3] Mosquitoes have a slender segmented body, one pair of wings, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and specialized, highly elongated, piercing-sucking mouthparts.