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Plague (Bubonic)
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Reservoir is rodents and vector is the rat flea. Bacteria enters through the bite of a flea.
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Endemic Murine Typhus
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Vector is the rat flea. Transmitted by a bite. Reservoir is the rat.
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Rocky-Mountain spotted fever
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Transmitted by the bite of a ood or dog tick. Infects various species of mammals with little or no illness. Humans are an accidental hosts.
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Lyme disease
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Reservoir is white-footed mouse, deer and various other mammals. Vector is the deer tick which transmits the organism through a bite.
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Epidemic typhus
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Vector is the human body louse. transmitted by a bite.
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Trachoma
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Flies (mechanical vector)
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Arboviral Encephalitis (West Nile and EEE)
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Vector Transmitted male mosquito to female mosquito and transovarian passage. Transmitted to mammals from the bite of a mosquito.
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