Filaria Disease: Mosquito Vectors and Symptoms

Filaria is caused by bites from infected female mosquitoes of genera Culex, Wuchereria bancrofti, or Brugia malayi. Mosquitoes become infected feeding on an infected person, then transmit larvae to another person. Larvae mature into adult worms in the body, causing symptoms: swelling of limbs, genitalia, scrotum, fever, chills, fatigue.