Vector Borne Diseases

What Vectors Carry What Diseases?

The term “vector” refers to any arthropod that transmits a disease through feeding activity.

"Vector-borne disease" is the term used to describe an illness caused by an organism that is

transmitted to people by biting arthropods.

Insect and arachnid (arthropods) vectors include mosquitoes, fleas, lice, biting flies, mites and ticks.

Anaplasmosis

Babesiosis

Bartonellosis

Borrellia Miyamotoi

Chagas' Disease

Chickungunya

Deer-Fly Fever

Dengue Fever- Flavivirus

Eastern Equine Encephalitis

Ehrlichiosis

Filariasis

Hantavirus

Japanese Encephalitis

La Crosse Encephalitis

Leishmaniasis

Lyme Disease

Malaria

Plague

Q-Fever- Coxiella burnetii

Rabbit Fever

Rift Valley Fever

Ross River Virus

Salmonellosis

Scabies

Sleeping Sickness- African Trypanosomiasis

Spotted Fever

St. Louis Encephalitis

Swimmer's Itch- Cercarial or Schistosomal Dermatitis

Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever

Tick Paralysis

Tularemia

Typhus- Rickettsia prowazekii

Viral Meningitis

West Nile Virus

Yellow Fever

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