But death tolls from fanged beasts pale in comparison to the havoc mosquitoes wreak. Between malaria, dengue and yellow fever, the World Health Organization chalks up millions of annual deaths to the insect. One specific type of mosquito out of around 3,500 species, the Aedes aegypti spreads these diseases and has made headlines in the wake of increased microcephaly cases almost certainly caused by mosquito-borne Zika virus in Brazil, Argentina and other nations in Central and South America.
With the Centers for Disease Control estimating Ae. aegypti’s range extending as far north as central California on the west coast and Rhode Island on the east (the numbers and risk in these areas are unknown) and experts predicting that the risk and range of these mosquitoes will increase with time, the threat from these mosquitoes is real.
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