You are in bed one night and you hear something that makes you groan. The dreaded buzzing of a mosquito. Not only can bites be incredibly annoying with their itchy bites, but they can actually kill you if you are not careful.

Mosquitoes are perfect disease host. They transfer diseases by piercing skin and injecting numbing saliva. This injection process also sends along whatever bacteria, virus and other nasties they are carrying.

Mosquitoes and malaria are two words that just go together. Malaria is a huge problem world wide with 300 million cases reported annually. South America, Africa and Asia are the primary infection zones each year.

As the mosquito bites you, the Malaria parasite enters your blood stream and heads to the liver where it reproduces. Dehydration can lead to death, but symptoms usually stop with fever, fatigue, diarrhea and shaking.

A step up from Malaria is Dengue Fever. Dengue used to be fairly isolated, but has now spread to over 100 countries through Africa and Asia thanks to the friendly mosquito. There is no cure to the disease and there is an aggressive version that kills.

Dengue Fever is a virus that is brutal. After the mosquito bite, it begins replicating resulting in high fever, shakes and general misery. In bad cases, the patient literally bleeds to death through orifices including the ears and eyes.

Encephalitis is a nasty disease transported by the mosquito host as well. It is a viral infection that severely impacts the brain by causing inflammation. The brain literally swells until it is damaged when crushed up against the skull.

Yellow Fever is another viral disease that mosquitoes host and transport. Yellow Fever is similar to other viral fevers in most cases, but a little less than twenty percent of the people that get it have a much worse result.

For a minority of patients, Yellow Fever is a nightmare. It starts with a high temperature that never goes away. Your skin then turns yellow. You then begin to bleed through every orifice including your eyes. At this point, 50 percent of patients die in 10 to 14 days.

At this point, it has probably become obvious that mosquitoes are the bringers of misery and death. Treating all these diseases is impossible, so killing the mosquitoes is critical. Widespread spraying works, but has to be done consistently.

Is there any way to control mosquitoes around your property? Yep. They need standing water to breed. Make sure there is no standing water around your house and you will have few mosquito problems.