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Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, CDC Finds

FILE — Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a breed that carries the Zika virus, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Lab in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Feb. 24, 2016. The number of people who get diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years, federal health officials reported on May 1, 2018. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)