1.   And runoff could spread an outbreak of dengue fever, a tropical disease carried by mosquitoes.

2.   Mosquitoes can carry many diseases, and a flood can create ideal conditions for them to breed.

3.   Mosquitoes carry the disease, picking up the virus from infected birds and transmitting it to other birds, and to humans, that they bite.

4.   Mosquitoes carry dengue.

5.   Officials said that most mosquitoes did not carry the virus and that the illness was not always fatal.

6.   Regions of the globe where disease hits the hardest are those swarming with mosquitoes and where the mosquitoes carry the most deadly strains of viruses.

7.   The parasite, Plasmodium, is normally carried by mosquitoes, which transmit it to people through bites.

8.   These minute worms, or nematodes, are carried by mosquitoes and implanted in the body during insect bites.

9.   They have also ruled out yellow fever, another disease that, like dengue, is carried by mosquitoes.

10.   These rare mosquitoes can carry dengue, a viral illness with flulike symptoms of fever, headache and muscle and joint pain.