mosquito-carried infection
nounUK /məˈskiː.təʊ ˈkær.id ɪnˈfek.ʃən/
US /məˈskiː.toʊ ˈkær.id ɪnˈfek.ʃən/
A sickness you can get when a mosquito bites you and gives germs to your body.
Malaria is a mosquito-carried infection that people can catch in some warm countries.
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2. An illness spread by mosquitoes that affects both people and animals.
The vet warned that heartworm is a mosquito-carried infection in dogs.
3. A public health term for diseases that spread when mosquitoes bite infected people and then bite others.
Health workers worked to stop the mosquito-carried infection from spreading through the village.
4. Any germ or virus that travels from one host to another through a mosquito's bite.
Scientists studied how the mosquito-carried infection moved between birds and humans.