The poll showed that 62 percent thought the disease was transmitted by mosquitoes.
Instead, mosquitoes transmit the viruses to people, who may become ill.
Yellow fever is a disease also transmitted by mosquitoes native to Africa.
Yellow fever was the first virus shown to be transmitted by mosquitoes.
The disease, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, killed 7 people and sickened 62 others in the metropolitan region last fall.
They infect reptiles and are thought to be transmitted by mosquitoes.
Yellow fever, transmitted by mosquitoes, was for centuries a mass killer in much of the world.
The microfilariae circulate in the blood and are transmitted by mosquitoes.
Many diseases such as malaria are transmitted by mosquitoes.
It is transmitted mainly by mosquitoes, which are most active in the summer, the peak of the bullfighting season.