Table 4.1 Main vectors and diseases they transmit
Mosquitoes
Ticks
Sandflies
Triatomine bugs Tsetse flies
Fleas
Black flies
Aquatic snails Lice
Aedes
Anopheles Culex
Ixodes,
Dermacentor,
Hyalomma
Phlebotomia
Triatominae
Glossina
Simuliidae
Biomphalaria,
Bulinus
Chikungunya,
Dengue fever,
Lymphatic
filariasis, Rift
Valley fever,
yellow fever,
Zika
Malaria,
Lymphatic
filariasis
Japanese
encephalitis,
lymphatic
filariasis,
West Nile
fever
CrimeanCongo
haemorrhagic
fever, Lyme
disease,
relapsing
fever
(borreliosis),
Rickettsial
diseases
(spotted fever
and Q fever),
Tick-borne
encephalitis,
Tularaemia
Leishmaniasis,
sandfly fever
(phelebotomus
fever)
Chagas disease
(American
trypanosomiasis)
Sleeping sickness
(African
trypanosomiasis)
Plague
(transmitted
by fleas
from rats to
humans),
Rickettsiosis
Onchocerciasis
(river
blindness)
Schistosomiasis
(bilharziasis)
Typhus
and
louseborne
relapsing
fever
Adapted from the WHO fact sheet Vector-borne diseases
(WHO 2017a)