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Other than the fact that they are annoying parasites that leave itchy spots on your arms when they bite, mosquitos are also disease vectors. This means that if they bite something that has a disease, they can transmit that disease to the next thing they bite. The original diseases people discovered they carried was malaria and yellow fever.

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