#QuizOfTheDay: Identify this British medical doctor, born and worked in India, who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria - becoming the first British Nobel laureate. #WorldMosquitoDay

A. Ronald Ross
B. Robert Koch
C. Edward Jenner
D. Louis Pasteur

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/quiz?qId=62ecc76e13b298d6acf10618

How do we know which of the species is not native to our continent?

We have published a handy tool to identify mosquitos for those who participate in the invasive mosquito species' surveillance.

Click and take a look: https://bit.ly/ECDCMosquitoBook
#WorldMosquitoDay

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ECDC_EU/status/1561678580295278593

The asian tiger mosquito, the yellow fever mosquito and the asian bush mosquito spread potentially lethal infectious diseases like dengue, chikungunya & zika, and are responsible for a number of outbreaks of infections unseen previously in the EU/EEA.

#WorldMosquitoDay

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ECDC_EU/status/1561678575815872512

#DYK that there are three invasive mosquito species, that have colonised various regions of Europe, getting as far north as Germany?

#WorldMosquitoDay

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ECDC_EU/status/1561678570925195265

RT @ECDC_EU: #DYK that there are three invasive mosquito species, that have colonised various regions of Europe, getting as far north as Germany?

#WorldMosquitoDay

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EMA_News/status/1561698239253987328

RT @WHO: Today is #WorldMosquitoDay!

Mosquitoes are the most dangerous animals in the 🌎🌍🌏 as they can transmit diseases such as:
🔸 Malaria
🔸 Dengue
🔸 Filariasis
🔸 Chikungunya
🔸 Zika
🔸 Yellow fever

🦟 borne diseases put the lives of billions at risk.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/inge_graessle/status/1560882491329765376