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To: palmer

Understood. So what, if anything, precludes a virus from being transmitted in a like manner?


19 posted on 10/08/2014 5:19:50 PM PDT by Temujinshordes
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To: Temujinshordes
The mosquito salivary glands have to transmit the virus from the blood stream. Here's what they say in the science paper abstract: One important step in the transmission of most vector-borne diseases is the entry of the disease agent into the salivary glands of its arthropod vector. The salivary glands of blood-feeding arthropods produce a complex mixture of molecules that facilitate blood feeding by inhibition of the host haemostasis, inflammation and immune reactions. Pathogen entry into salivary glands is a receptor-mediated process, which requires molecules on the surface of the pathogen and salivary gland. In most cases, the nature of these molecules remains unknown

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20621627

Short answer: nobody knows.

21 posted on 10/08/2014 5:32:11 PM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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