What are Vector-borne diseases? Here're symptoms, history in numbers

These diseases account for more than 17 per cent of all infectious diseases, causing over seven lakh deaths across the world annually.

While Kerala is witnessing a third outbreak of the Nipah virus, Uttar Pradesh is in the grip of a mysterious dengue-like fever that has killed at least 100 people, mostly children, in the past few weeks.

Mumbai too is seeing a rise in dengue cases from last year: 129 in 2020 to 138 in the past eight months of 2021. When it comes to malaria, 3,338 cases were reported in the financial capital till August 29 this year. As fresh cases of dengue and malaria rise amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, here is a look at major mosquito-borne diseases in numbers.