Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are flying insects. They have two sets of wings and are quite small, generally between 4 and 10 millimetres in length. They have a specially developed proboscis (a feeding mouth part) that they use to bite through skin to suck blood. Mosquitoes feed on a range of birds and mammals including man. They are known as "vectors" because they can carry certain communicable diseases.
Information, Data and Reports for
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Vectorborne diseases
- Chikungunya Fever
- Dengue fever
- Louse-borne Relapsing Fever
- Lyme Disease
- Malaria
- Tickborne diseases
- Oropouche virus disease
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Typhus
- Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers
- Yellow Fever
- West Nile Virus (WNV)
- Zika virus infection
- Mosquitoes
- Quarterly reports
- Publications
Ireland’s specialist service for the surveillance of communicable diseases.