Effects of climatic and environmental factors on mosquito population inferred from West Nile virus surveillance in Greece
Mosquito-borne diseases’ impact on human health is among the most prominent of all communicable diseases. … Mosquitoes play a major role in transmitting pathogens to humans, being the vector of very common and geographically widespread diseases such as Malaria, Yellow Fever, Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, and West Nile virus disease. The latter disease is caused by West Nile virus (WNV): a single-strained positive-polarity Flavivirus, which is transmitted mostly by mosquitoes from genus Culex. WNV is maintained in an enzootic circle between these mosquitoes and birds, with other vertebrates—especially human and horses—as occasional and dead-end hosts.