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Scientists have found a kind of mosquitoes able to transmit a disease called West Nile virus to humans breed in Britain for the first time since 1945.
The scientists who have studied the marshes in the south of Britain that they were able to record large numbers of mosquito known as the "Kyulx Moodstos" in several locations in Kent and Essex during the years 2010 and 2011.
And West Nile virus infects birds in the first place but when it is transmitted from birds to humans through mosquito bites can sometimes cause severe illness and sometimes kills.
Nick said Golding, who conducted research at the University of Oxford in Britain and the Ecology Center and hydrology "is not clear since when was this type of mosquitoes of the United Kingdom."
He said in a telephone interview "is not worrying greatly at the moment, but something must be observed." He stressed that in spite of the mosquitoes found in Britain, it is not detected the virus, which endured until now.
Were collected a handful of mosquitoes Kyulx Moodstos on the south coast of Britain, recorded by more than 60 years ago but did not appear after that.
He said Golding, published its findings in the Journal of parasites and insect vectors of disease (journal Parasites and Vectors) that this type does not appear again in Britain until now.
He noted that the type of mosquito has reached new recently, perhaps through international shipping.
Experts believe that the disease control mosquitoes Kyulx Moodstos may be behind the outbreak of epidemics of West Nile virus intermittently in recent times in southern Europe.
The virus that lives in nature in the life cycle during which the transition between birds and mosquitoes are usually found in Africa and the Middle East and North America and West Asia and may cause neurological disease and death in some people.
Kate Kiland
Source:Reuters
The scientists who have studied the marshes in the south of Britain that they were able to record large numbers of mosquito known as the "Kyulx Moodstos" in several locations in Kent and Essex during the years 2010 and 2011.
And West Nile virus infects birds in the first place but when it is transmitted from birds to humans through mosquito bites can sometimes cause severe illness and sometimes kills.
Nick said Golding, who conducted research at the University of Oxford in Britain and the Ecology Center and hydrology "is not clear since when was this type of mosquitoes of the United Kingdom."
He said in a telephone interview "is not worrying greatly at the moment, but something must be observed." He stressed that in spite of the mosquitoes found in Britain, it is not detected the virus, which endured until now.
Were collected a handful of mosquitoes Kyulx Moodstos on the south coast of Britain, recorded by more than 60 years ago but did not appear after that.
He said Golding, published its findings in the Journal of parasites and insect vectors of disease (journal Parasites and Vectors) that this type does not appear again in Britain until now.
He noted that the type of mosquito has reached new recently, perhaps through international shipping.
Experts believe that the disease control mosquitoes Kyulx Moodstos may be behind the outbreak of epidemics of West Nile virus intermittently in recent times in southern Europe.
The virus that lives in nature in the life cycle during which the transition between birds and mosquitoes are usually found in Africa and the Middle East and North America and West Asia and may cause neurological disease and death in some people.
Kate Kiland
Source:Reuters