Vector-Borne Diseases
Educational Resources
Learn the facts about the most common vector-borne diseases in North Carolina and what you can do to reduce your chances of mosquito and tick bites.
Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
Tick-Borne Illnesses
- Fact sheets (may be paired with data sheets below):
- Maps and graphs (may be paired with fact sheets above):
- Poster:
- Do you feel ILL after exposure to TICKS or tick habitats? (color poster of different kinds of ticks and the diseases they carry, along with a list of disease symptoms) - 11"x17" (PDF, 2.21 MB) and 8½"x11" (PDF, 1 MB)
- NC DPH online disease information pages:
- See also "Prevention" below.
Prevention
- Making sense of repellents (PDF, 639KB) (different types of mosquito and tick repellents and their ingredients, what they do, how to use them safely and effectively)
- Mosquitoes in Your Yard? (PDF, 456KB) (How to control mosquitoes)
- Summer Camping… with no bites (PDF, 1.24 MB)
- Safe control of bedbugs - Bedbugs are not known to carry disease, but people have become ill or even died using pesticides improperly. Learn the Do's and Don'ts of Pesticide Use for Controlling Bedbugs. English (PDF, 1 MB) / Spanish (PDF, 1 MB)
