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Public menace or health concern? Mosquitoes are among the
most serious of insect pests that have a direct impact on humans. Mosquitoes
seriously affect the lives of vast numbers of people worldwide by
transmitting microbial organisms that cause disease and death. Mosquitoes
continue to carry some of the most widespread and devastating human disease
agents, including malaria, yellow fever and dengue. In the United States, the
primary reasons for controlling mosquitoes are to lessen the annoyance caused
by their bites and to reduce the transmission of human and equine viral
encephalitis, west Nile virus and dog heartworm. The annoyance includes the
itching, restlessness, loss of sleep and nervous irritation that people, pets
and domestic animals suffer as a result of attacks. Coastal areas are known
breeding sites for Aedes sollicitans, Aedes vexans, Culex pipiens, Culex salinarius; mosquitoes. They
represent four of forty plus species of mosquitoes known to make their home
in Connecticut. These four are particularly targeted because they make their
habitat in the brackish standing water typical of most salt marshes and for
their aggressive behavior, as well as being known carriers of Equine viral
encephalitis, West Nile virus, Yellow fever, Dengue fever, Jamestown Canyon
virus, Malaria and dog heartworm. In addition to West Nile virus, researchers
from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven have
isolated the Jamestown Canyon virus from Connecticut mosquitoes. The symptoms are generally
considered less severe than those of West Nile virus and are reported as mild
flu-like symptoms within 5 - 15 days of being bitten by an infected
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Public
Menace or Health Concern? |
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In addition to West Nile virus, researchers
have isolated the Jamestown Canyon virus from Connecticut mosquitoes. |
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Phone: (203)
245-7015 Email:
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