HTH 352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Typhus, Brown Recluse Spider, Bed Bug
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Pest: any organism that adversely affects human interest. Resource competition; compete with us for food or housing: rodents, deers, plant pathogens kill our food. Can cause disease: cockroaches second leading cause of asthma. Bugs: lice: body lice, head, pubic lice, parasite cause itching and infections scarring, crowded living conditions and poor hygiene, carry typhus fever headache, fever, rash, can be fatal, fleas: Carried in grass or other animals: bed bugs: Emerge at night to feed: spiders. Mosquitoes: have caused more human deaths than any other insect: carry malaria---quadromaqulous, yellow fever: adias egputus causes jaundice, dengue: cause, west nile virus asian tiger mosquito. Flies: not just a pest but also a vector for dieases, feed on humans and animals, spread disease by pooping typhus, cholera. Ticks: rocky mountaint spotty fever, lyme disease, bullseye disease for lyme disease . Second phase: doesn not respond to antibiotics. Rodents: eat our food, carry disesase,
