MNKYPOX Can Mosquitos spread monkeypox ?

[ainitfunny]

Can the Monkeypox virus be spread by mosquitoes?

I am wondering if the Monkeypox virus could be spread by mosquitoes since it is part of the Smallpox family. While doing some online research on this possibility, I came across this abstract taken ...

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I am wondering if the Monkeypox virus could be spread by mosquitoes since it is part of the Smallpox family.
While doing some online research on this possibility, I came across this abstract taken from an article titled 'Role of Mosquitoes in the Spread of Smallpox' in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 128, Issue 6, December 1973, Pages 781–783:

Smallpox is endemic in Calcutta, where Culex pipiens fatigans and Aedes aegypti abound. In a study of the role of these two species of mosquito in the spread of smallpox, laboratory-bred mosquitoes were allowed to feed on variola-infected, viremic infant mice. The engorged mosquitoes were tested daily for 15 days for viable variola virus. Virus could be recovered from C. pipiens fatigans for 72 hr and from A. aegypti for 96 hr. The separated proboscises of the latter mosquitoes were tested and were found to contain virus for the entire 96-hr period. It appears, therefore, that mechanical transmission of smallpox by these mosquitoes, especially A. aegypti, is possible.

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[wintery_storm]

I saw you got this from a Biology site. They had the answer there:
However, the poxviridae are all similar in that they are large, robust virions with the capability to persist in the environment for some time (for some species up to 6 month of winter), meaning that they can survive conditions that would be unusual for many other viruses. So, it is likely that if smallpox was capable of being transmitted by mosquitoes, then the same is possible for monkeypox and potentially other pox viruses too.

Having said that, the places of where smallpox was last found during the global eradication program, were largely places where mosquitoes and mosquito borne diseases are common (India, Somalia, Bangladesh). Despite this, the eradication was successful using contact-tracing and ring vaccination. If the virus was actually transmitted by mosquitoes, then these strategies would have been unsuccessful because the mosquitoes could have carried the virus to people who were not direct contacts. As this was not seen, I doubt that mosquitoes were a common vector for transmission of smallpox, if they were at all, and hence it is unlikely that mosquitoes will be a vector for transmission of monkeypox.

 

[ainitfunny]

AS a BTW -
Condoms DONT PROTECT PEOPLE FROM CATCHING MONKEYPOX FROM DISEASED PEOPLE!

 

[Dennis Olson]

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[ainitfunny]

wintery-strorm -
I wonder if that isn't going to be true of people who have had their immune system severely damaged by Covid vaccinations and boosters, where I read up to 85% of the natural immune system destroyed, making them vulnerable to much lower doses of infectious material that a healthy immune system would just simply sweep away .

We shall see.

 

[energy_wave]

It's an STD.

 

[Housecarl]

I remember when this very question was being asked about AIDS.....

 

[WalknTrot]

I marvel at some people's ability to invent problems where there currently are none.

 

[raven]

having anal sex with mosquitos should be avoided

 

[Dennis Olson]

I marvel at some people's ability to invent problems where there currently are none.

Agreed.

 

[ainitfunny]

When they have no idea where or how someone contracted a disease they just say "community contracted" and leave it there. They dont know whether it was from mosquitos or petting the neighbors dog (who rubbed up against the monkeypox sores on his masters legs ) or the guy who delivers Jimmy Johns or any other sandwiches who cant afford to be out sick.

 

[L.A.B.]

having anal sex with mosquitos should be avoided

As well as sharing flying needles with them.

Wasn’t there a m-r gaytes that presented the mosquito vector to a crowd of fawning followers a few years back?

 

[bracketquant]

I marvel at some people's ability to invent problems where there currently are none.

Doomers gotta doom.

 

[phloydius]

Based on the information out there on studies (from the last 20 years) on how Monkeypox spread, which is very different that is being promoted by the mainstream liberal media currently and parroted by conservative news outlets, mosquitos spreading Monkeypox is a extremely minor possible vector to be concerned about.

 

[ShadowMan]

Wouldn't that just be peachy if they could. Not like we already have enough to worry about....

 

[Dozdoats]

I marvel at some people's ability to invent problems where there currently are none.

So, better safe than sorry isn't a thing any more?