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Vector and rodent control
The document discusses various arthropods of medical importance including mosquitoes, flies, sand flies, tsetse flies, black flies, lice, and fleas. It describes the identifying characteristics, life cycles, diseases transmitted, and control measures for each type. Mosquitoes can transmit malaria, dengue, yellow fever, and other diseases. House flies can mechanically transmit typhoid, diarrhea, and other diseases. Sand flies transmit kala-azar and sandfly fevers. Tsetse flies cause sleeping sickness in Africa. Lice can transmit epidemic typhus, relapsing fever, and trench fever. Rat fleas transmit bubonic plague and endemic typhus.
