Insects

Insects: Disease risks from insect exposure.
Introduction: Various insects can act as "vectors" transferring a disease from an animal to a human (especially mosquitos and ticks). Other conditions may arise directly from an insect sting or bite. For more information see insect-borne diseases, mosquito-borne diseases, flea-borne diseases, and tick-borne diseases. See also risk information for birds and animals.

Condition count: 30; see list of conditions below.
Risk factor subtypes: mosquitos (12), flies (11), ticks (9)

Risk factors: Risk Factor Center, risk factor list

Insects: Diseases list

The following list of medical conditions have 'Insects' or similar listed as a risk factor in our database:

A

• African Sleeping sickness ... tsetse fly bites
• Amebic dysentery ... flies on food

B

• Barmah Forest virus ... mosquitoes
• Bubonic plague ... fleas

C

• Chagas disease ... assassin bugs
• Cholera ... flies on food
• Contagious Diseases ... mosquitos, flies, fleas, insects, ticks

D

• Dengue fever ... mosquitoes
• Dysentery ... flies on food

E

• East African Trypanosomiasis ... Tsetse flies, Tsetse fly bites

L

• Leishmaniasis ... sand fly bites
• Lyme disease ... tick bite, ticks

M

• Mosquito bite ... mosquitoes
• Mosquito-borne diseases ... mosquitoes

P

• Plague ... fleas
• Pneumonic plague ... fleas

Q

• Queensland tick typhus ... tick bite, ticks

R

• Rickettsia ... fleas, ticks, tick bites
• Rift Valley Fever ... mosquito exposure
• Ross River virus ... mosquitoes

S

• Sandfly fever ... sandfly bites, Phlebotomus paparasi
• STARI ... tick bite, ticks

T

• Tick bite ... tick bite, ticks
• Tick paralysis ... tick bite, ticks
• Tick-borne diseases ... tick bite, ticks
• Trachoma ... flies
• Typhoid fever ... flies on food
• Typhus ... fleas, ticks, tick bites

W

• West African Trypanosomiasis ... Tsetse flies, Tsetse fly bites

Y

• Yellow fever ... mosquitoes

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