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CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID) - Details about this national and international reference center for vector-borne viral and bacterial diseases. Location: Colorado, USA. Covers disorders such as lyme, plague, yellow fever, west nile, virus, and dengue fever. Publications, links and details about specimen submissions.
Neato Mosquito - Curriculum guide and video designed to teach 4th grade students about mosquito biology and the prevention of La Crosse encephalitis. From CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases.
GORP - Tick-Borne Diseases In North America - Discusses several tick-borne illnesses and how they affect people enjoying outdoor sports.
Insect Borne Diseases - Factsheets on many insect-borne illnesses.
Postgraduate Medicine: Patient Notes: Tick-borne Illness - Factsheet on preventing tick borne disease.
CDC: Insects, Arthropods, and Diseases - Factsheets, articles, and news reports on arthropod borne diseases.
eMedicine - Tick-Borne Diseases, Introduction - Article by Jonathan A Edlow, MD.
Tick-Borne Disease Education - Directory of factsheets, articles, and educational materials.
Stop Breeding Mosquitoes - Advocates citizen action to educate community leaders about the dangers of disease vectors from breeding mosquitoes, especially in storm water drains in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Georgia Department of Public Health - Vector-borne Diseases - Information on West Nile virus and other mosquito borne diseases in the state.

Paratransgenesis - Paratransgenesis is a technique that attempts to eliminate a pathogen from vector populations through transgenesis of a symbiont of the vector. The goal of this technique is to control vector-borne diseases.
Ixodes ricinus - Ixodes ricinus, known as the sheep tick or castor bean tick, is a hard-bodied tick (family Ixodidae) of Europe. It is a vector for Lyme disease and tick-borne meningoencephalitis.
CVBD - CVBD - Canine Vector-Borne Diseases - is a veterinarian term for diseases transferred to dogs by various parasitic vectors. This includes diseases caused by pathogens transmitted by ectoparasites such as ticks, fleas, sand flies, or mosquitoes, as well as those transmitted by endoparasites such as filarial nematodes.
Borrelia - Borrelia is a genus of bacteria of the spirochete class. It is a zoonotic, vector-borne disease transmitted primarily by ticks and some by lice, depending on the species.