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Vector Borne Diseases
There are over thousands of species of arthropods (including mosquitoes and ticks) existing in countries worldwide. Out of those, only a small percentage of them are capable of carrying and transmitting diseases to humans. These diseases are not caused by the arthropods themselves (in this case mosquitoes and ticks are only vectors of the diseases, not the cause), but rather by pathogens, such as bacteria, protozoa, and viruses, carried by the blood-sucking arthropods.
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Disease Transmission
Such diseases may be transmitted by touching someone infected, eating infected food, being bitten by an animal or insect carrying the disease, or by inhaling the infectious agent from someone sneezing or coughing and contracting the disease through intimate sexual contact.
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Propagation of Vector Borne Diseases
As the majority of infected persons contract the diseases by being bitten by an infected animal or insect, the large amount of improper waste disposal increases the propagation of vector borne diseases by indirectly creating an environment whereby the disease vectors thrive in, the abandoned architectures or those of low maintenance might also serve as a natural habitat. Areas within our homes could well become mosquito breeding ground with any small puddle of accumulated water a due to negligence or even just a slight over-look. With the raising popularity of international travel, it results in the opening of the airways to the transcontinental movement of infectious disease vectors, bringing vector borne disease to the global stage of worldwide concern.