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The mosquitoes responsible for spreading dengue, yellow fever and zika are spreading across Europe, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warned this Thursday, warning of a greater risk of spreading these diseases.
“Europe is experiencing a warming trend with heat waves and floods becoming more common and severe, and summers are longer and hotter. This creates more favorable conditions for invasive mosquito species”, warned the ECDC, in the statement accompanying the presentation of a report on the spread of diseases through mosquitoes.
ECDC became aware of the spread across northern and western Europe of the Asian tiger mosquito, which carries the dengue and chikungunya viruses.
At the same time, over the last year, the species responsible for transmitting yellow fever, zika, chikungunya and the West Nile virus has established itself in Cyprus “and could spread to other European countries”, warned the institution.
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