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Hanna Björk wrote:
Do you have malaria in the US? (not sure if David is from the US but the majority of the forum population are) What other diseases do they spread?
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It's rare but not completely unheard of. It was more widespread in the past, and the climate certainly supports it. As for what other diseases they spread...as I said, they're flying syringes. In the USA they carry various forms of encephalitis and West Nile virus as well. As its name indicates, West Nile didn't originate here, and it spread like crazy once it got here, so as far as what that mosquito that bites you tomorrow might be carrying, all bets are off.
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Hanna Björk wrote:
I much prefer mosquitos to black flies, btw. (Our black flies don't transmit diseases either.)
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Yeah, you don't generally find them together unless you're real unlucky. Black flies are savage.