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- Aedes mosquitoes are vectors of avian malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and chikungunya.
- Aphids are the vectors of many viral diseases in plants.
- Bats which represent about 20% of all known mammalian species act as both a natural reservoirs for viruses such as the Hendra virus (HeV) and the SARS like coronaviruses and in many cases as a vector for various viruses such as the lyssaviruses including the rabies virus.
- Cyclopoid copepods; a number of species transmit the nematode Dracunculus medinensis.
- Domestic cats are the primary host species for Toxoplasma gondii a species of parasitic protozoa which causes Toxoplasmosis. Approximately 30% of the human population is infected with Toxoplasmosis.
- Fleas such as the human flea, Pulex irritans and the Oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, transmit bubonic plague, murine typhus and tapeworms.
- Glassy-winged sharpshooter transmits the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium among plants, resulting in diseases of grapes, almonds, and many other cultivated plants.
- Mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus transmit human Malaria and Elephantiasis.
- Phlebotomine sand flies transmit leishmaniasis, bartonellosis and pappataci fever.
- Ticks of the genus Ixodes are vectors of Lyme disease and babesiosis. and along with lice transmit various members of the bacterial genus Rickettsia.
- Triatomine bugs such as Rhodnius prolixus are vectors of Chagas disease.
- Tsetse flies Several genera are vectors of human African trypanosomiasis also known as "African sleeping sickness".
- Pathogens from humans and cats can infect and kill seals and dolphins.
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