Vectors are small organisms such as mosquitoes, bugs, ticks and freshwater snails, that can carry disease from person to person and place to place. They can put our health at risk, at home and when we travel. The World Health Day 2014 campaign focuses on some of the main vectors and the diseases they cause and what we can all do to protect ourselves.
40% of the world's population is at risk from dengue.
Every 1 minute a child dies from malaria in Africa.
An estimated 1.3 million new cases of leishmaniasis occur annually.
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