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Name one disease which spreads through insect bites.

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Insects (mosquitoes, lice, fleas, bed bugs) and ticks are able to transmit a number of diseases caused by infectious agents: viruses(chikungunya virus, yellow fever,dengue fever, etc.), bacteria (Lyme disease, plague, etc.), parasites(malaria, sleeping sickness,leishmaniasis, filariasis, etc.).


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