What if a Fly...

[daroadie]

Lands on someone Infected with Ebola?

[a777pilot]

It dies.

[HK91-762mm]

It dies.




 

[jst-the-fax]

I certainly hope you have good video...as otherwise no one will believe you! 

[BOBRI123]

What if a Mosquito bites a person with Aids then bites a person without  Aids  ?

Does the uninfected person get Aids ?


If the Person is Dying Of Ebola and a Mosquito Bites the person then Bites a healthy person , will the Healthy person Get Ebola ?


BOB   RI   123

[jst-the-fax]

That might be a question for the EBOLA CZAR? 

[BOBRI123]

The Czar is an Obama appointee what makes you think he will answer any Questions even if he knew the answer ?


BOB  RI   123

[jst-the-fax]

Bob RI

got this from a cite so they are not my words. 

Can a Mosquito bite more than once?

"Oh yes they can! Ask me, I live in Africa! Mosquitoes can bite people more that once and this is what forms the basis of the spread of malaria. A mosquito bites a person infected with malaria. It then bites an uninfected person and in doing so transfers the malarial parasite."


So in theory...a mosquito could spread ebola?? 

[a777pilot]

The difference, as far as I know, is that the malaria virus can live in the mosquito while the ebola virus can only survive in a warmed blooded mammal.  The scary part is that the ebola virus an live for a short time, maybe an hour or more, outside its host.  If a mosquito's feeding habits are that in draws blood more than once a night, it would appear that it is possible it, ebola, could be spread by these pests.

 

[jst-the-fax]

If the female mosquito does not get her stomach filled on the first attempt...it will find another host(s) until it's stomach is full. If that occurs within say a minute or two...I would say it is quite possible. 

[sweetwater5s9]

A mosquito must pick up a disease from a human, and then the disease has to survive the digestive process and get into position to infect the next human. In the case of malaria, which kills more than 600,000 people every year, the parasites in the blood stored in the mosquito’s gut spend up to two weeks changing into five different forms. Two of those forms “mate,” creating a final form that migrates through the mosquito to end up in her salivary glands.

 
When mosquitoes bites, they inject saliva, which contains anticoagulants so they don’t get clots in the thin proboscis — the straw they have in place of a mouth — that they insert into you. Ebola can’t get into mosquito saliva, so mosquitoes don’t transmit it.


http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/do-mosquitoes-spread-ebola/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0


So the NY Times claims?

[jst-the-fax]

I don't hold a great deal of confidence in that, as if the mosquito had the virus on her "straw" than it holds it could transmit the virus to another...if that second bite was within a few minutes?? But than I am not the EBOLA CZAR!!