Abstract
Mosquitoes are the most important vectors of pathogenic organisms. Diseases like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, zika and West Nile encephalitis have emerged or re-emerged in several countries of the world during the past decades [1-4].
These diseases have been ranked by World Health Organization (WHO) as the most important tropical diseases in the worldbecause each year, insects and other vectors transmit infectious pathogens to more than one billion people, causing more than 700,000 deaths worldwide [5]. The impact of these diseases on human and animal is enormous. They affect productivity and cause a vicious spiral of poverty and disability and in another hand affect food production and contribute to economic lost in different ways [6]. The distribution and seasonality of many of these diseases may be influenced by climate change. Mosquitoes are sensitive to temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns, for example when the temperature increaseswould tend to accelerate mosquito life cycles and would also decrease the incubation period of the parasite or virus. The weather patterns and other aspects of climate change can to contribute that the mosquito’s diseases will be increase [7]. These observed climatic changes have led to further water storage with accompanying poor water protection and scanty community participation creating more breeding sites for mosquitos like Aedesaegypti principal responsible of arbovirus transmission like dengue, zika, chikungunya and others [8]. For malaria vectors the rainfall patterns bring several temporal natural breeding sites and contribute to malaria transmission4 .Impacts on health would entail the emergence of a disease in new areas as well as the extension of the transmission season in areas where it is present [4,9], besides willbe to changes the geographical range of these vector/borne diseases for example the chikungunya outbreaks in Europe [10].
Citation
del Carmen Marquetti Fernández M, Marquetti AB (2019) Urgent Call for Action: Avoiding Spread of Mosquito-Borne Diseases as a Major Public Health Problem. JSM Vet Med Res 2: 2.