Mosquito-borne Diseases:
Dengue, Dog Heartworm, EEE, Malaria, SLE, WNV, Zika
Why Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit HIV
Dengue/Fever Links
- NJ State Health Fact Sheet: Dengue Fever
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Dengue website
- Wikipedia: Dengue Fever, Dengue Virus
Dog Heartworm
- Dog Heartworm
- American Heartworm Society - Canine Heartworm Disease
- American Veterinary Medical Association - Heartworm Disease
- Wikipedia: Heartworm
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
- Questions Regarding Eastern Equine Encephalitis and Horses
- New Jersey Approach to Encephalitis Prevention (pdf)
- NJ State Health Fact Sheet: Eastern Equine Encephalitis
- CDC: Encephalitis outbreak summaries including EEE for the US.
- Wikipedia: Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Malaria - 1992 NJMCA Symposium
- History of Malaria in New Jersey
- Malaria in New Jersey - 1991
- Indigenous Malaria Cases - Monmouth County 1991
- The Impact of an Indigenous Case of Malaria on Camden County
- The Biology of Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say
Malaria Links
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Malaria website
- Malaria Foundation International - the most common and deadly parasitic disease in the world.
- Human Diseases and Insect Vectors - (From Virginia Tech, also covers Plague, Lyme, Scabies. and other arboviral diseases)
- Malaria - NJ State Health Fact Sheet
- Dr. Seuss's Ann Anopheles (from WW2, intended for soldier information sheets, historical)
- Wikipedia
St. Louis Encephalitis Links
- Regarding outbreaks of SLE (mosquito control applies as well to West Nile)
- SLE Fact Sheet
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) SLE Website
- Encephalitis outbreak summaries including SLE for the US.
- Wikipedia
West Nile Fever - Species List - Identifying Crows and Hawks
New Jersey:- Rutgers Vector and Adult Mosquito Surveillance reports
- Culex pipiens Fact Sheet and Species Account
- West Nile Test Results, West Nile Alert and Facts Sheets - Protocols, guidelines, information by the NJ Department of Health.
- NJDEP Office of Mosquito Control Coordination & New Jersey State Mosquito Control Commission
- NJ Dept Agriculture West Nile Information - Equine oriented.
Links to National and State Surveillance reports (not all sites are updated.)
From the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):
General Arboviral Information and Encephalitis
- Vector-borne Diseases
- Division of Vectorborne Diseases
- Guidelines for Arbovirus Surveillance Programs in the US. Provides epidemiological and environmental backgrounds to St. Louis, Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis. (Requires Acrobat Reader - download free from http://www.adobe.com)
- West Nile Virus Homepage
- Hubalek's overview of West Nile fever outbreaks in Europe, arthropod vectors, transmission cycles and dead end hosts.
- USGS National Wildlife Health Center Disease Information (see under West Nile)
- USGS Arboviral Maps
- Using Insect Repellents Safely - From EPA
- Mosquito Control Methods - from our own website
