Bed Bugs Disease Vector

Some of the disease-causing agents transmitted by houseflies to humans are Shigella spp.

Bed bugs disease vector. The parasite that causes the disease is in the bug feces. The current bed bug pandemic has again put bed bugs in the spotlight in terms of the potential to transmit human pathogens. 2 vector for human illness worldwide Prevention is emphasized Lyme disease is most common in US.

Linking a disease to knowledge of its vector. They vary in size depending on age. Lyme disease tick-borne meningoencephalitis CrimeanCongo hemorrhagic fever tick-borne relapsing fever Q fever the tick-borne spotted fevers babesiosis ehrlichiosis tularemia.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever Texas fever Colorado tick fever Ehrlichiosis Tularemia Tick paralysis Relapsing fever. Which of the following pairs of vector and disease isare correctly matched. Bed bugs are small insects that feed on human blood.

A recent review of bed bugs and infectious diseases was published in 2011 by Delaunay and colleagues who described some 45 pathogens as being potentially transmissible by bed bugs. Bed bugs a problem worldwide are resurging causing property loss expense and inconvenience. They are the vector for numerous diseases.

If communities are to be involved in programmes to control insect- transmitted parasitic diseases prevalent in their locality knowledge of the link between disease and vector is needed. Culex Anopheles Aedes species of mosquito. They are mainly important as a biting nuisance.

The good news is that bed bugs do not transmit disease. The bug generally poops on or near a person while it is feeding on her blood usually when the person is sleeping. River blindness and black flies.