Insect-borne diseases

Erythema chronicum migrans (New Latin, literally, "chronic migrating redness") refers to the rash often (though not always) seen in the early stage of Lyme disease.

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi.

Tick-borne diseases, which afflict humans and other animals, are caused by infectious agents transmitted by tick bites.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (also known as oriental sore, tropical sore, chiclero ulcer, chiclero's ulcer or Aleppo boil) is the most common form of leishmaniasis affecting humans.

Epidemic typhus (also called "camp fever", "jail fever", "hospital fever", "ship fever", "famine fever", "putrid fever", "petechial fever", "Epidemic louse-borne typhus," and "louse-borne typhus") is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural disasters.

Dirofilariasis is an infection by parasites in the Dirofilaria genus.

Arbovirus is a term used to refer to a group of viruses that are transmitted by arthropod vectors.

Plague is an infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

Oroya fever or Carrion's disease is an infectious disease produced by Bartonella bacilliformis infection.

Loa loa filariasis is a skin and eye disease caused by the nematode worm Loa loa.

Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is a human disease caused by parasitic worms known as filarial worms.

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, black fever, and Dumdum fever, is the most severe form of leishmaniasis.

Pogosta disease is a viral disease, established to be identical with other diseases, Karelian fever and Ockelbo disease.

Tularemia is a serious infectious disease caused by the intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis.

African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, is a parasitic disease of humans and other animals.

Filariasis (or philariasis) is a parasitic disease caused by an infection with roundworms of the Filarioidea type.

Acanthocheilonemiasis is a rare tropical infectious disease caused by a parasite known as Acanthocheilonema perstans.

Saint Louis encephalitis is a disease caused by the Mansonia pseudotitillans mosquito borne Saint Louis encephalitis virus.

A mosquito net offers protection against mosquitos, flies, and other insects, and thus against the diseases they may carry.

Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness and Robles disease, is a disease caused by infection with the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus.

Pneumonic plague, a severe type of lung infection, is one of three main forms of plague, all of which are caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral disease that can cause mild to severe symptoms.

Ross River virus (RRV) is a small encapsulated single-strand RNA alphavirus endemic to Australia, Papua New Guinea and other islands in the South Pacific.

Brugia timori is a human filarial parasitic nematode (roundworm) which causes the disease "Timor filariasis.

The Equine encephalosis virus (EEV) is a virus of the Orbivirus genus, and a member of the Reoviridae family, related to the African Horse Sickness Virus (AHSV) and the Blue Tongue Virus (BTV).

African horse sickness (AHS) is a highly infectious and deadly disease.

Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV) is a zoonotic flavivirus endemic to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.

The Western equine encephalomyelitis virus is the causative agent of relatively uncommon viral disease Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE).

Oxitec (orig. Oxford Insect Technologies) is a British biotechnology company which develops genetically modified insects to assist in insect control.

Mansonella streptocerca, (formerly Diptalonema streptocerca), is the scientific name of a human parasitic roundworm causing the disease streptocerciasis.

Elaeophora schneideri (arterial worm; cause of elaeophorosis, aka "filarial dermatitis" or "sorehead" in sheep; or "clear-eyed" blindness in elk) is a nematode which infests several mammalian hosts in North America.

Kunjin virus (KUNV) is a zoonotic virus of the family Flaviviridae and the genus Flavivirus.

Bluetongue disease is a non-contagious, insect-borne, viral disease of ruminants, mainly sheep and less frequently cattle, goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries, and antelope.

Bourbon virus is an RNA virus in the genus Thogotovirus of the family Orthomyxoviridae, which is similar to Dhori virus and Batken virus.

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease recently discovered in northeast and central China.

Brugia malayi is a nematode (roundworm), one of the three causative agents of lymphatic filariasis in humans.

Barmah Forest virus is an RNA virus in the Alphavirus genus.

Mayaro virus disease is a mosquitoborne zoonotic pathogen endemic to certain humid forests of tropical South America.

The SFTS virus (SFTS, Huaiyangshan virus) is a phlebovirus in the family Bunyaviridae.