Why You Can Get So Many Diseases from Mosquitoes | TIME

 

Times magazine:

Zika virus, the latest mosquito-borne virus to hit the United States, joins a long list of other infections the insects can carry, like malaria, dengue fever, chikungunya and West Nile. How can these bugs—so tiny that we often miss them at first swipe—be responsible for so many infections? It turns out their vampire-like tendencies are largely to blame.....

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Why You Can Get So Many Diseases from Mosquitoes | TIME