
Unfortunately, your cookie settings do not allow videos to be displayed. The best way to control these diseases is through prevention. Preventative depopulation does contain the disease, but does not eradicate it. Diseases such as Rift Valley fever and Bluetongue disease require a specific control strategy. Diseases that formerly only occurred in the sub-tropics and tropics are moving north and have reached the Netherlands. But other diseases are gaining territory. Most of the animal diseases that occur in the Netherlands are directly transferred from one animal to another.

Wageningen University & Research, RIVM and Nature Today are also the driving forces behind Tekenradar (Tick Radar), a website that predicts tick activity in the Netherlands. According to research conducted by Wageningen University & Research, an average 15.1% of all the ticks in the Netherlands carry the Borrelia bacteria that causes Lyme’s disease. The percentage of ticks that is a carrier of the bacterium varies from place to place and from one year to another. Tick bites can cause Lyme’s disease in humans. Malaria is caused by single cell parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which belong to a large group of parasitic one celled animals called the Sporozoa. Some mosquitoes carry parasites that cause diseases such as Malaria and Dengue. They are able to find us by detecting the carbon dioxide that we breathe out, the scent of our sweat and our body heat. In Massachusetts, mosquitoes can give you eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus or West Nile virus.

Each mosquito species has its own preference, some bite animals whilst others prefer humans. Mosquitoes can spread diseases that make you sick. Only female mosquitoes bite, male mosquitoes live on nectar and plant juices. Bites can transmit diseases such as malaria and West. After mating, female mosquitoes search for blood because they need it to develop their eggs. There are about 200 different species of mosquitoes in the U. According to the Dutch species register, 37 of these species can be found in the Netherlands. There are approximately 3,000 mosquito species in the world.
