 If you look at them, you may never believe it, but mosquitoes are actually the most dangerous animal on earth. They are responsible for carrying diseases and transmitting them to humans, such as malaria, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, and together these diseases are killing one person every one to two minutes globally. Vietnam has two important viral diseases, Japanese encephalitis virus and dengue virus, that are both transmitted mostly during the warm and rainy period during the year. Japanese encephalitis virus is a disease causing severe neurological diseases and can even cause deaths. And these mosquitoes carrying it like to breed in large amounts of water, like rice fields, but they can also breed close to your home. The mosquitoes carrying dengue, which is a disease causing fever and in many cases also death, these mosquitoes can breed almost anywhere, in any kind of water you have standing around your garden. And therefore now when the risk is as high as it's extra important that you actually remember to clean your garden, make sure there are no standing water around, but maybe not only your garden, look around you and see if there's any piles of trash on the street that could contain mosquitoes that are threatening your family. Gators are not only attracted to humans, they're also attracted to the animals we keep and our livestock. Therefore there might be increased risks of contracting some mosquito-borne diseases if you live close to your livestock. Livestock can mean that you have more breeding grounds for mosquitoes, more water standing around, but it could also be that the mosquitoes are attracted to the animals per se, and therefore you get more mosquitoes around your house. This is one thing that we're trying to study in our projects to find out how you best can protect yourself when you're keeping livestock, but also if you can protect your livestock from getting infected. Mosquitoes are opportunistic species and they will often bite whichever animal is the closest to them, but they do have preferences and we see that some mosquitoes, such as the one that almost often carry Japanese encephalitis, they often prefer to bite pigs or other large animals whereas the mosquitoes that transmit dengue often attack humans preferably. Therefore it's important that you make sure that if you have livestock, keep the area around the livestock also clean and without too much standing water, and you can also protect pigs or other livestock through large mosquito nets. To make sure that you protect yourself against these diseases, do whatever you can to eliminate the possibilities of mosquitoes to breed close to you, but also protect yourselves through using bed nets, protective clothing or mosquito repellent.