Short description
Flaviviruses are transmitted to mammals and humans by the bite of infected mosquitoes and ticks. They cause serious diseases. n.
Detailed description
Here, mosquitoes and ticks are vectors, which do not fall ill themselves but transmit the virus to another host. Flaviviruses cause diseases such as
dengue fever, zika fever, yellow fever,
tick-borne encephalitis and the West Nile fever.