What does mosquito-borne mean?!


Question: Mosquito-borne - "carried by mosquitoes"; borne = past participle of "to bear", like "bear arms", or "bear a child".

Like airborne means carried by the wind.

-borne has to be one of the best suffixes ever. You can add it to anything! handborne, fishborne, Yahooborne...


Answers: Mosquito-borne - "carried by mosquitoes"; borne = past participle of "to bear", like "bear arms", or "bear a child".

Like airborne means carried by the wind.

-borne has to be one of the best suffixes ever. You can add it to anything! handborne, fishborne, Yahooborne...

carried by mosquito's, such as the disease is (carried by) mosquito borne

It is a term used for diseases and pathogens etc that are transported by mosquitos. i.e. malaria is a mosquito borne disease in that malaria is carried and inserted into the host by the mosquito.

It means that it is spreads by mosquitoes.

Cheese to you.

like pollen is borne by a bee to the hive
so malaria and encephalitis is borne by a mosquito till it bites u
borne is to carry as a burden

Transmitted by mosquito bites





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