# World Mosquito Day - 20 August.
World mosquito day is celebrated annually on August 20. It is a commemoration of a British doctor, Sir Ronald Ross’s discovery in 1897 that ‘female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans’. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine organizes world mosquito day celebrations every year, since the 1930s.
Mosquitoes are one of the deadliest animals in the world. Their ability to carry and spread diseases to humans causes millions of deaths every year. There are several different mosquitoes that can carry many different diseases. Aedes, Anopheles, Culex mosquitoes act as vectors (living organisms that can transmit infectious diseases between humans or from animals to humans) for the following diseases-
- Aedes: Chikungunya, Dengue fever, Lymphatic filariasis, Rift Valley fever, Yellow fever, Zika
- Anopheles: Malaria, Lymphatic filariasis (in Africa)
- Culex: Japanese encephalitis, Lymphatic filariasis, West Nile fever
- ඊඩීස්: චිකුන්ගුන්යා, ඩෙංගු උණ, වසා ගැටිති, රිෆ්ට් වැලි උණ, කහ උණ, සිකා
- ඇනොෆිලස්: මැලේරියාව, වසා ගැටිති (අප්රිකාවේ)
- කූලෙක්ස්: ජපන් එන්සෙෆලයිටිස්, වසා ගැටිති, බටහිර නයිල් උණ
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