Illnesses on the Rise from Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites: CDC Vital Signs: May 1, 2018

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of the Associate Director for Communications.
• Description:
  Almost everyone has been bitten by a mosquito, tick, or flea. These can be vectors for spreading pathogens (germs). A person who gets bitten by a vector and gets sick has a vectorborne disease, like dengue, Zika, Lyme, or plague. Between 2004 and 2016, more than 640,000 cases of these diseases were reported, and 9 new germs spread by bites from infected mosquitoes and ticks were discovered or introduced in the US. State and local health departments and vector control organizations are the nation’s main defense against this increasing threat. Yet, 84% of local vector control organizations lack at least 1 of 5 core vector control competencies. Better control of mosquitoes and ticks is needed to protect people from these costly and deadly diseases.
  
  www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/vector-borne
  
  www.cdc.gov/mmwr
  
  CS290757-A
  
  vs-0518-vector-borne-H.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Disease Outbreaks Disease Vectors Insect Bites And Stings
• Series:
  Vital Signs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  4 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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