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Is it true that you can only catch hepatitis from mosquitoes?
Is hepatitis carried by mosquitoes, or is that only malaria? If I have malaria does it increase the chances of my contracting hepatitis?
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Hello @teadrnkr!
Aside from the itching and swelling involved, there is a growing fear of mosquito bites because of the way it spread disease due to its contact with blood. Mosquitopierces the skin and siphon out a person's blood then repeats this on a different individual.
There are some say that there is a theoretical risk of being infected with viral hepatitis from a mosquito bite. But this has not yet been proven and confirmed.
The "needle" or proboscis that a mosquito is a complex structure that has separate channels. So when it bits it injects saliva through one channel. The saliva serve as a lubricant to help mosquito feed easily and the blood that it sucks flow in a different channel in one direction which is toward the mosquito.
So it would be unlikely for infected blood to be spread to another person.
Although there are disease that can be spread through mosquito bite like malaria and yellow fever but in case of hepatitis, it is won't happen. The mosquito inject saliva into whatever it is biting and hepatitis is spread through blood.
Aside from the itching and swelling involved, there is a growing fear of mosquito bites because of the way it spread disease due to its contact with blood. Mosquitopierces the skin and siphon out a person's blood then repeats this on a different individual.
There are some say that there is a theoretical risk of being infected with viral hepatitis from a mosquito bite. But this has not yet been proven and confirmed.
The "needle" or proboscis that a mosquito is a complex structure that has separate channels. So when it bits it injects saliva through one channel. The saliva serve as a lubricant to help mosquito feed easily and the blood that it sucks flow in a different channel in one direction which is toward the mosquito.
So it would be unlikely for infected blood to be spread to another person.
Although there are disease that can be spread through mosquito bite like malaria and yellow fever but in case of hepatitis, it is won't happen. The mosquito inject saliva into whatever it is biting and hepatitis is spread through blood.
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