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Cort@lemmy.world 2 months agoI think you forgot zika. Malaria is like the one thing aegyptii don’t transmit.
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Cort@lemmy.world 2 months agoI think you forgot zika. Malaria is like the one thing aegyptii don’t transmit.
HiobsTriops@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re absolutely right, Zika is another important arbovirus in this context. Very broadly speaking: Flaviviridae and Togaviridae (mostly of the Alphavirus genus) are frequently reported viruses from Ae. aegypti while e.g. Bunyaviridae are rarely mentioned in connection with them. For Plasmodium species (= Malaria pathogens, single celled-parasites): they do transmit some other forms like avian Malaria, just not those species pathogenic to humans. Also Filaroidea (=little Worms) don’t seem to be transmitted either.