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Major concern in the United States, where the dreaded malaria disease is being diagnosed in people who have not been abroad. That means they contracted the infection locally. This is especially the case in a number of holiday parks. The authorities fear that the malaria mosquito is on the rise and are sounding the alarm, treating any detected case as an emergency. Experts note that rising temperatures are a possible cause and that an invasion of the mosquito may be imminent.
As a result of the climate crisis, dangerous mosquitoes are also increasingly found in Europe, such as the malaria mosquito and the tiger mosquito that transmits dengue fever. RTL News writes:
Mosquitoes that can infect people with (viral) diseases such as dengue, Zika, malaria and the West Nile virus are on the rise in Europe. This is according to a new report from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The risk of contracting such a virus increases as a result. The ECDC report concerns two invasive, subtropical species of the mosquito genus Aedes, which are not native to Europe. They have been on the rise in Europe for several decades and can transmit viruses from person to person. The Aedes mosquitoes are in more parts of Europe to settle, which means they survive the winters and reproduce here. According to the institute, this is due to global warming, the increase in heat waves and floods, and longer and warmer summers. In these changed conditions, the insects can more easily survive all year round.
The tiger mosquito is already commonplace in Southern Europe, but is also establishing itself in the Netherlands. The species is capable of spreading as many as 22 different types of viruses. If the mosquito bites an infected person, the people who are stung afterwards will also be infected. Especially dengue fever, also called denue, is a dreaded disease, partly because of the excruciating pains. The name refers to the feeling that the bones are breaking. In 2022, 71 cases were registered in Europe. That may not seem like much, but it is more than in the previous ten years combined.
It RIVM message that the disease is spreading rapidly, especially in the Caribbean Netherlands:
The number of dengue virus infections has increased very rapidly in recent decades. An estimated 90 million dengue virus infections with symptoms occur worldwide each year, including 500,000 cases of severe dengue, mostly children [1]. Several dozen cases of dengue are reported annually from the Caribbean Netherlands.
The RIVM also provides a number of tips to prevent contamination, such as covering bare skin.
2023-07-04 11:51:53
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