Long-Lasting Insecticide-Treated Textiles Preventing from Mosquito Bite and Mosquito-Borne Diseases

Among all the vector-borne diseases occurring worldwide, mosquito-borne diseases prevail by far resulting in approximately 700,000 deaths from clinical complications annually. Although malaria still accounts for the highest disease burden, currently emerging and resurging mosquito-borne viral diseases like dengue, West Nile, chikungunya, Rift Valley and even yellow fever viruses became either epidemic or pandemic, affecting many regions in the world. In February 2016, the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus public health emergency of international concern following large outbreaks with rapid geographical spread in the Pacific and Southern America, while Mayaro, Wesselsbron, Usutu and St. Louis encephalitis viruses have been identified as new disease agents showing pandemic potential.