Thread: Ebola: "Out of Control in West Africa"
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Old 07-31-2014, 22:40   #16
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Originally Posted by The Reaper View Post
If bodily fluids transmit it, why can mosquitos not be a vector?

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Good question, IIRC Mosquitos are not a susceptible host/carrier of the virus. Also I have not heard that domestic animals have been susceptable as hosts. So just bats and humans and only the humans die far as I can remember.
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