Hardly is summer time, mosquitos buzz through the air. In view of the corona crisis, the question now arises: Can mosquitoes transmit the corona virus? (As of April 20, 2020)
There are some diseases that can be transmitted by mosquitoes. Malaria, for example, or dengue fever, is transmitted by certain tropical mosquitoes. In view of the first mosquitos, which are now beginning to buzz through Germany on time with the spring sun, many people ask the question: Can mosquitoes also transmit the new Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus?
Fortunately, there is good news on this point. The World Health Organization (WHO) has already dealt with this question and is currently giving the all-clear. So far, there is no evidence that mosquitoes could transmit the new corona virus.
The novel corona virus is a respiratory virus that spreads primarily through droplet infection when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
The Robert Koch Institute does not yet mention transmission via mosquitoes as one of the possible transmission routes of the corona virus.
As the "Spiegel" explains, a lot has to come together so that diseases can be transmitted via mosquitoes. The pathogen must be present in sufficient numbers in the blood of the infected and must also be able to reproduce and maintain in the insect until the next bite of the mosquito via its saliva allows transmission to the next pricked animal.
Researchers have so far detected the new corona virus in the blood of some Covid 19 patients, but "by far not all of them". Accordingly, it is very unlikely that mosquitoes will soon ingest the new virus, even if they bite infected people. No transmission via mosquitoes has yet been detected in other corona viruses.
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