With the change in season and rise in temperature, culex or common house mosquitoes have made a reappearance across the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warmer temperatures are the main reason for the appearance of these mosquitoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their presence is especially felt more in areas around floodplains in East and South Delhi as it is an ideal condition of breeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Culex mosquitoes are known carriers of Japanese encephalitis, a potentially life-threatening but rare viral disease that causes \u201cacute inflammation\u201d of the brain. They breed in dirty, stagnant water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They can fly up to a distance of 1-1.5 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unlike Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue and chikungunya and breed in clean water, culex mosquitoes breed in unclean stagnant water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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