BIOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE
HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE
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vector
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predator
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Detailed explanation-1: -Vectors are living organisms that can transmit infectious pathogens between humans, or from animals to humans.
Detailed explanation-2: -A vector is a living organism that transmits an infectious agent from an infected animal to a human or another animal. Vectors are frequently arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, flies, fleas and lice.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dengue, malaria and Chagas disease. Leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and yellow fever. Chikungunya, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and West Nile virus. These are 10 vector-borne diseases carried by mosquitoes, ticks, flies and other vectors that put one of every two people in the Americas at risk.
Detailed explanation-4: -In epidemiology, a disease vector is any living agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen to another living organism; agents regarded as vectors are organisms, such as parasites or microbes.
Detailed explanation-5: -Print. Diseases Carried by Vectors. Climate is one of the factors that influence the distribution of diseases borne by vectors (such as fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes, which spread pathogens that cause illness).