Mosquito bites aren’t just a nuisance but can be a serious public health threat as seen during the mosquito-borne Zika outbreak that spread through much of the globe last year. A new study published today in the Nature Communications journal reports that mosquitoes might be even more adept at spreading disease than previously thought. The researchers
wanted to find out if the infamous Aedes aegypti mosquito may be able to spread multiple diseases at once. The insect, also called the cockroach of mosquitoes, is known to be among the primary way diseases like chikungunya, dengue and Zika virus spread. Researchers from Colorado State University exposed hundreds of mosquitoes to either chikungunya, Zika or dengue and different combinations of the three. They also exposed 48 mosquitoes to the three viruses–chikungunya, Zika and dengue–to see if one or all three of the diseases could app. READ MORE
A couple of years ago, I read an article about how the US government had come up with robot mosquitoes that were like miniature drones. And because the general public wouldn’t be able to tell the difference the government uses them to spy. It would not surprise me one bit if they are now using them to infect the general public (or specific citizens) with multiple diseases. I find that much more believable than a statement saying that real mosquitoes are now infecting us with multiple diseases, especially since they never have in the thousands of years of their existence.