Mosquitoes are responsible for the transmission of two of the most dangerous and deadly diseases of our time, malaria and deng fever.
These two diseases are epidemics in many developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and across Asia.
Both malaria and deng fever are spread from person-to-person and animal to animal by mosquito bites, as the virus contained in the blood of an infected individual is passed to another.
The Bill Gates foundation has made one of its primary goals to be the worldwide eradication of malaria, through improvements in sanitation as well as mosquito control, and progress has been made in slowing the spread of these diseases in recent years.