Insect vectors of disease

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Entomoses
Nature 
Insects are the most important vectors of disease, being prominent in the transfer of human, animal and plant diseases.
Incidence 
Examples of insect vector-borne diseases are sleeping sickness transmitted by the tsetse fly; Chagas disease, transmitted by a triatomid bug; onchocerciasis, a filarial disease carried by a black fly, [Simulium] spp; Bancroftian and Brugian filariases, transmitted by various species of mosquitoes in urban and rural areas; dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever, transmitted by [Aedes aegypti], a mosquito; yellow fever, also transmitted by [A aegypti] and other [Aedes] spp.
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