Insect Vectors of Disease

Insect-borne diseases are among the most devastating of all human diseases. Insects (mostly flies, fleas, and lice) serve as effective vectors of disease by transmitting pathogens via their blood meals. Malaria is the most serious and costly of all insect-borne diseases and continues to killl between 1 and 3 million people per year. We will examine the life histories of the diseases as well as their impacts on human history.

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