Mosquitoes, as tiny as they are, cause adverse effects on the human population ranging from diseases, deaths, economic fluctuations and losses. Dealing with the mosquito-caused diseases is costly since a lot of money is a necessity to fund the eradication projects. Some of the deadly diseases that a single mosquito can lead to are malaria, elephantiasis, dengue and the new Zika virus.
Although some of the diseases, for example, the dengue disease have vaccines, it is bad that some of them like Zika, Malaria and Elephantiasis have no vaccines so far. Besides, the Zika virus threat is bad for Brazil since some countries are reluctant to send their athletes to the Olympics in Rio instilling fear that the Olympics will not be successful. The Dengue disease which also originates from Aedes Aegypti mosquito bites is quite a unique condition since the number of people infected rises by 390 million annually ("How Mosquitoes can Bleed an Economy", 2016). What is more unique is the fact that sometimes it never develops symptoms at all.
The effects of the Zika virus are novel since the some of the symptoms associated with the disease are entirely new. For instance, some the babies born from a mother suffering from the Zika virus develop an abnormality of small heads. The global economics statistics reveal a breakthrough in research geared to get a vaccine for dengue disease in Brazil and Mexico. This effort contributes to a new and at the same time, a real achievement since the vaccine will play a great role in fighting the disease.
Moreover, one of the historical epidemics is the 1773 yellow fever epidemic that was an ugly one since it killed a 10th of Philadelphia residents and jeopardized trade in the city. Brazil's efforts to curb the increasing cases of malaria is a real effort bearing in mind that they have involved workers in a door to door campaign to create awareness to the citizens on malaria prevention.
References
How Mosquitoes can Bleed an Economy. (2016). Global Economics.
