Disease
|
Vector
|
Causative organism
|
Host
|
Symptoms
|
Area
|
Treatment
|
Orbivirus(virus)
|
Fever, lung, heart or
mucous membrane symptoms.
|
Europe, Africa
|
Vaccination
|
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Babesia(protozoan)
|
Human, cattle
|
Fever then red urine
|
South Europe and Africa
|
Antibiotics
|
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Orbivirus(virus)
|
Cattle, sheep
|
Fever, salivation,
swelling of face and tongue
|
Europe, Africa
|
Vaccination
|
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Chagas disease(American trypanosomiasis)
|
Various assassin bugs of
subfamily Triatominae
|
Trypanosoma cruzi(protozoan)
|
Mild symptoms, then
chronic heart or brain inflammation
|
Central and South America
|
Antiparasitic drugs;
treatment of symptoms
|
|
Flavivirus (virus)
|
(Sub) tropics and South
Europe
|
Observation/supportive
treatment
|
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Tick-borne encephalitis
virus
|
Central and North Europe
|
prevention and vaccination
|
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Heartland virusdisease
|
Fever, lethargy, headache, myalgia, diarrhea, nausea, loss of appetite, anorexia, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, arthralgia
|
Missouri and Tennessee,
USA
|
Supportive treatment
|
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Leishmania(protozoan)
|
South hemisphere and
Mediterranean Countries
|
Treatment of infected
|
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Borrelia
burgdorferi(bacterium)
|
Deer, human
|
Bull's-eye pattern skin
rash around bite, fever, chills, fatigue, body aches, headache, joint pain.
Sometimes neurological problems.[1]
|
Europe, North Africa, and
North America
|
Prevention and antibiotics
|
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Plasmodium(protist)
|
Human
|
Headache then heavy fever
|
(Sub) tropics
|
Prevention and
anti-malaria
|
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Rats, Human
|
Prevention and Antibiotics
|
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Scandinavia, France,
Russia
|
unknown
|
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Rickettsial diseases:
Typhus rickettsialpox Boutonneuse fever African tick bite fever Rocky Mountain spotted feveretc. |
Rickettsiaspecies (bacteria)
|
Fever with bleeding around
the bite
|
Global
|
Prevention and antibiotics
|
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African trypanosomiasis(sleeping sickness)
|
Trypanosoma brucei(protozoan)
|
Wild mammals, cattle,
human
|
Fever, joint pain, swollen
lymph nodes, sleep disturbances
|
Sub-Saharan Africa
|
Various drugs
|
|
Filariasis
|
human
|
Fever, swelling of limbs
|
Africa, Asia.
|
Various drugs
|
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West Nile disease
|
Birds, human
|
Fever, headaches, skin
rash, body aches.
|
Africa, Asia, North
America,South and East Europe
|
None
|
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