Other tick-borne disorders include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, tularemia, Colorado tick fever, and human monocytic enrlichiosis. Ticks are currently under investigation as possible vectors of a West Nile-like virus. Lyme disease will be back with a vengeance this spring and summer. In New Jersey, there were 1,722 reported cases in 1999. Its carriers include deer of which there are an estimated 170,000 in the Garden State.
Countless thousands exist in other Northeastern States.
Birds, squirrels and mice are other carriers. Mosquitos are carriers of malaria, yellow fever, filariasis, dengue fever, and encephalitis, in addition to West Nile Fever. There are 2,960 species known around the world with 169 species recorded in North America. New species continue to be introduced to America as international travel expands. The three major genera are Aedes, Culex and Culiseta.