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As we enter summer, the question no one is asking is: Can mosquitoes transmit this virus like they do malaria?
by IanDrake 6y ago
As we enter summer, the question no one is asking is:
Can mosquitoes transmit this virus like they do malaria?
- gumby 6y agoInteresting question although unlikely. Certainly it's not possible with the mechanism of malaria transmission which uses a multi-species cycle.
- catalogia 6y agoI don't know enough about them to say for sure, but I haven't heard of any sort of virus being transmitted by mosquitoes. Malaria is caused by a parasite, not a virus.
- IanDrake 6y agoEEE then. That's a virus transmitted by mosquitoes. Malaria was a bad example.
- LyndsySimon 6y agoMy understanding is that no, they can’t, because the virus does not reproduce in mosquitos. Similarly to HIV, it is theoretically possible for a mosquito to feed off someone with the virus then within minutes feed off someone else, be killed, and the infected blood contain enough remaining particles to cause an infection... but to my knowledge this has never been shown to happen in practice. I’m more concerned about stray cats. It has been shown that felines can both host 2019-nCoV and get COVID-19.