August 20, "World Mosquito Day."

August 20 every year coincides with World Mosquito Day, founded in 1987 to remember Sir Ronald Ross, a British military physician who worked in India. He discovered that "female mosquitoes" can carry malaria from person to person. This discovery has become a key principle for the prevention and control of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases, and it won Sir Ronald Ross the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1902.

Mosquitoes (Mosquitoes) are very common insects in tropical and temperate regions. They play a role as a food source for other animals - bats, birds, fish, frogs, and many predatory insects. The presence of mosquitoes in the food chain supports natural equilibrium, providing predators with an adequate food source. They directly affect the biodiversity in the wild. In addition, some mosquitoes play a small role, such as helping to pollinate flowers. Mosquitoes therefore contribute to the propagation of plants in the wild like other insects.

During a mosquito's lifetime, up to three eggs can be laid. Female mosquitoes forage from many animals by sucking blood to bring external protein to help the eggs grow, and this allows mosquitoes to transmit viruses and other harmful microbes in the animal's blood.

Although mosquitoes carry both malaria, dengue and sika fever, on the other hand mosquitoes contribute to maintaining ecological balance, so we should understand the importance of mosquitoes in the wild, along with measures to prevent mosquito-borne communicable diseases, to keep our lives and mosquitoes alive alongside each other.

Source: Health Enhancement Support Fund (MP) Office website and Department of Medical Sciences website, Ministry of Health.

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