EBOLA Mosquitos as an ebola vector?

Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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Is it possible for mosquitos to carry the ebola virus?

No one has openly discussed this so I wanted to ask, as an academic question.

Winter is coming, that will help folks north of I-20 but the deep south has them year-round.
 
Hognutz

Hognutz

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Millwright said:
Is it possible for mosquitos to carry the ebola virus?

No one has openly discussed this so I wanted to ask, as an academic question.

Winter is coming, that will help folks north of I-20 but the deep south has them year-round.
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Scary thoughts Millwright! I don't know if they can, but the next one that lights on me, will make me think....:shkr:
 
Kris Gandillon

Kris Gandillon

The Other Curmudgeon
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Millwright said:
Is it possible for mosquitos to carry the ebola virus?

No one has openly discussed this so I wanted to ask, as an academic question.

Winter is coming, that will help folks north of I-20 but the deep south has them year-round.
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The CDC says "No, Ebola is not transmitted via mosquitoes."

Take that for whatever it is worth to you.

Wonder if USAMRIID has done any studies in this area?
 
dstraito

dstraito

TB Fanatic
How about when d68 enterovirus runs into ebola and they combine into a mosquito that already is carrying West Nile and has the ability to transmit - a trifecta of horror
 
Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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Trying to remember if the classic mosquito born plagues, malaria , yellow fever, etc. were bacterial or viral as a general rule.

The hiv/aids virus was too fragile to survive in mosquitos, supposedly.

I don't know if there is something in the mosquito saliva that might kill viruses?





Random thoughts...........

ETA: dstraito, true, I forgot about West Nile...its viral.
 
Hognutz

Hognutz

Has No Life - Lives on TB
What about when one lands on ya and ya "smack him". And he is full of blood. Would that blood still be contagious????
 
sy32478

sy32478

Veteran Member
How about common flies - landing on bodily fluids and then on you or your food. Be more common when the bodies are unburied.
 
Cyclonemom

Cyclonemom

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I am in the process of reading DH's virology book about the filoviridae family. (As a veterinarian, he is required to learn about zoonotic diseases, which this is. We have also discussed virology in depth since this started to become an apparent problem.)

My logical conclusion is that NO, IT CAN'T BE SPREAD VIA MOSQUITO. It would be more widespread, outbreaks would happen more often, and there would be many, many, many more cases. Just think of the prevalence and spread of malaria in Africa. Ebola isn't even a statistical blip on the radar compared to that scourge.

ALSO, YOU CAN'T CROSS EBOLA WITH THE FLU, OR WEST NILE, OR LYME, OR ENTEROVIRUS, ETC. THEY ARE ALL COMPLETELY SEPARATE FAMILIES OF VIRUSES! IT WOULD BE LIKE MATING A CAT AND A COW. EVEN IF YOU COULD GET THE PHYSICAL ACT DONE :rolleyes: THE GENETICS SIMPLY WOULD NOT WORK.
 
Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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Cyclonemom said:
I am in the process of reading DH's virology book about the filoviridae family. (As a veterinarian, he is required to learn about zoonotic diseases, which this is. We have also discussed virology in depth since this started to become an apparent problem.)

My logical conclusion is that NO, IT CAN'T BE SPREAD VIA MOSQUITO. It would be more widespread, outbreaks would happen more often, and there would be many, many, many more cases. Just think of the prevalence and spread of malaria in Africa. Ebola isn't even a statistical blip on the radar compared to that scourge.

ALSO, YOU CAN'T CROSS EBOLA WITH THE FLU, OR WEST NILE, OR LYME, OR ENTEROVIRUS, ETC. THEY ARE ALL COMPLETELY SEPARATE FAMILIES OF VIRUSES! IT WOULD BE LIKE MATING A CAT AND A COW. EVEN IF YOU COULD GET THE PHYSICAL ACT DONE :rolleyes: THE GENETICS SIMPLY WOULD NOT WORK.
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Thanks.

That makes me feel a bit better.

Will shoot mosquitos on sight....just in case.
 
Tigerlily

Tigerlily

Senior Member
Several months ago, I read a dream someone had where they hit a mosquito on the back of their friend. It was full of blood. And then in the dream, the person saw a few weeks later the friend was diagnosed with Ebola.
 
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Mysty

Veteran Member
About a month ago when I was trying to figure out which animals can get this and pass it on,, the one thing I was grateful for was that mosquito's have been tested over and over and they have never found Ebola present. Now bugs like ticks are a different story...
 
Doomer Doug

Doomer Doug

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Doomer Doug posted a while back that it was known that many of the unburied, rotting corpses in Liberia were being fed upon by feral animals, as well as insects.

We know that dogs can infect people, even if they don't get Ebola themselves. Various types of insects, flies, mosquitoes etc, also feed on Ebola infected corpses. It is also a known fact that mosquitoes carry various bacteria and virus.' Mosquitoes are a known disease vector for several tropical diseases: malaria, dengue fever among others.

It is certainly possible that if mosquitoes fed on a corpse, sucked blood from it, then they could infect any person they bite. Mosquitoes inject a substance that helps with blood flow when they bite a human or an animal. The virus or bacteria is injected at the same time this happens.

The answer is that mosquitoes are a potential disease vector for Ebola if they pick up infected blood.
 
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wab54

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When this first started, That question was asked and the CDC said "Yes, it was spread by mosquito" in a TV interview.


WAB
 
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