Mosquitoes in a changing environment Anders Lindström National Veterinary Institute Sweden
Tree hole mosquito, Aedes geniculatus The One health concept is the realization that we are connected to our environment and that changes in our mosquitoes environment will affect our health through
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House mosquito, Culex pipiens, hatching One Health and mosquitoes Whyitis hard to talk aboutthe future we don't know don't we that know don't we What know don't that we knowWhat we know we thinkthat we What Yellow fever mosquito , Aedes Aedes aegypti The mosquito fauna is changing We know climate change will affect, among other things • Temperature • Precipitation
We also know that the mosquito fauna is changing mosquitoes • New species are establishing in Europe • Native species are changing their distribution
We can see emerging mosquito- and vector- borne infections • West Nile Fever • Dengue • Usutu • Chikungunya • Bluetongue • Malaria
• Schmallenberg • Zika? One Health and and Health One
House mosquito, Culex pipiens larva mosquitoes
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Wasp spider(Argiope bruennichi), found 1989 on Gotland
mosquitoes One Health Health One and The parasitic fly Tachina ursina was first observed in
Sweden in April 1994 and has spread north
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• They are big and easy to mosquitoes recognize • They are all affected by climate change • Who is looking for mosquitoes
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• GIS data to connect trap data to habitat
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Acreto AB - Imports and distributes Mosquito Magnets
- Large customer network in Sweden (~15 000 sold machines) mosquitoes
SVA
- Reaches the customers/owners of the machines through Acreto AB and media - Customers sends a 24h catch sample to SVA
- Acreto/SVA replaces the sent in ”net bags” with a new one to the customers One Health and and Health One Mosquito distribution
Mosquito hunt Model mosquitoes
One Health and and Health One Trap sites Modelled distribution based on vegetation and hydrology Why? • Climate change and globalisation means increased possiblities for mosquito borne disease. •Increased knowledge of mosquito distribution give better
possibilities for modeling of vectors and risk of outbreaks.
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Picture from nordrisk.dk! One Health and mosquitoes But , mosquitoes like to travel ! Yellow fever mosquito
Discovered in 1750 by
Swedish traveller and mosquitoes naturalist Fredrik Hasselquist, described
by Linnaeus in 1762. One Health and and Health One
Yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti Yellow fever mosquito
mosquitoes Had already travelled the Atlantic onboard the slave ships. The mosquitoes bred in the water supplies for the slaves and fed on the blood of the slaves.
First outbreaks of Yellow fever in the Caribbean in 1647 and 1648. One Health and and Health One One Health and mosquitoes One Health and mosquitoes Mosquitoes adapt and and use the latest means of transportation ! The Tiger mosquito This mosquito originates from the forests of SE Asia, where it breed in pitcher plants,
treeholes etc.
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Tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus
The Tiger mosquito mosquitoes
In 1960 China and Soviet split. Albania chose China over Soviet. This forced Albania to trade with China. One of the products that was shipped to
Europe was tyres. One Health and and Health One The Tiger mosquito
The standing water in the tyres is equivalent to the small bodies
of water found at forest edges mosquitoes that the Tiger mosquito, Aedes
albopictus, breeds in. One Health and and Health One One Health and mosquitoes zika etc. It is Southern TigerThe also a Europe mosquito vector . for chikungunya, dengue, is a serious pest in Tiger mosquito , Aedes albopictus Aedes One Health and mosquitoes everywhere world Since then and and established it has ithas . succesfully itself more travelled or less less or the Tiger mosquito , Aedes albopictus One Health and mosquitoes where Spreading Japanese it breeds rock pool in Europe in flower mosquito . Often vasesgraves. the on found , Aedes japonicusAedes in graveyards .
Japanese Rock Pool Mosquito
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Picture: ECDC One Health and mosquitoes the lastthe Schmallenberg Outbreaks And that’s decade just the of Bluetongue . viruses mosquitoes during and …. Biting midge , Culicoides sp. One Health and mosquitoes ”Taiga tick”, Ixodes persulcatus One Health and mosquitoes Spinose ear tick, Otobius megnini
Thank you for listening! mosquitoes Anders Lindström
National Veterinary Institute
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