It’s an annoyance for sure but I hate using off or other deterrents. Plus I guess I am contributing to the eco system somewhat by giving them nourishment.
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Hahahahaha
Dammit almost made me wake up my better half from laughing!
You’d feel differently, if you lived somewhere malaria was common.
Most people get malaria from the bite of an infective mosquito, also called a vector.
Most cases of malaria diagnosed in the U.S. are in people who have traveled to or from other countries where malaria is widespread. We call this imported malaria.
Locally acquired, mosquito-transmitted malaria is a rare event in the U.S.
They also might not have the enzyme or whatever it is that makes mosquito bites itch.
Washington DC is a malarial swamp.
The most unpopular opinion.
I guess you’re lucky to not live in a place with malaria and dengue.
Or chagas. Or chikungunya. Or any of a number of other aegyptus-spread diseases. A species that is not native to most of the world, is not a natural pet of most ecosystems, and which doesn’t contribute in any meaningful way to almost any ecosystem in the world.
To be fair, the Chagas vector isn’t a mosquito, it’s a big motherfucker who shits in your mouth when you’re sleeping
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Yup, Chagas is delivered by this fucking bloodsucker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatoma_infestans
a truly unpopular opinion. i take it you don’t hail from inland alaska or florida.
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never been there, have ya?
https://unofficialnetworks.com/2013/08/01/mosquito-swarms-alaska/
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glorious cake day to you
Enjoy your Dengue, Malaria, Zika, Ross River, West Nile, Barmah Forest, Chikungunya, Elephantiasis, Japanese Encephalitis, Murray Valley and/or Yellow Fever.
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For the medics and nurses
It does, a comic character as a good example of what not to do.
You are only contributing to the small subset of mosquitoes that feed on humans. And spread diseases among them.
Historically speaking, the mosquito is one of the biggest killer in human history. If not the biggest.
The biggest is humanity. Also, they feed on humans and spread diseases.
Smallpox might still have any one mosquito borne illness like malaria beat.
There’s got to be an upper limit where it’s unbearable without bug spray. Head to Northern Canada, go for a tromp in the bush, and find out what yours is!
as a floridian that is very… familiar… with mosquitos… are you telling me that your northern Canadian cold doesn’t do shit to them ?
well hell fire have we tried nuking them from orbit?
Nah the cold does kill them off, it’s just that the summer months are still hot and boggy. Best if both worlds.
that is one of the perks of living ‘up north’… no bugs outside in the winter.
Mosquitoes are hell in the north too. But the winter kills the sub species of mosquitoes that carry the diseases, except for maybe west nile but that’s not a huge deal. Oh yeah, and eastern equine encephalitis but that is super rare.
Or any patch of tallish grass.
What I hate the most on them is that these bastards will fly really close to your ear right before sleeping. Light up the room to kill it? It is gone. Close the lights and head back to sleep? It is back, flying right next to your ear.
That’s fine. Perhaps you’re a person that doesn’t react to the itch? They go after me and I get quite itchy, but blackflies don’t bite me much at all. When blackflies do bite me I get a bit of a bump but not like my friends.
Pack it up folks, this one wins
FREAK (no offense)
They can give you malaria bro. It kills you.
What blood type are you? Certain blood types don’t get bitten by them as much. I’m a blood type that they generally ignore, but as a kid one time i got bitten by a lot one summer and it annoyed me and seemed to hurt.
Oh and apparently new ones released in america by people on ourpose can cause you to get allergic to red meat (Lyme’s disease)
Before any vegan says 'great!'- read:
Lyme’s disease also gives you huge red warts that is long-term to permanent, and red meat is very important for raising peoples B12 and iron and Ferritin levels, which are all things that fight fatigue and organ failure. Please don’t fucking take the choice of eating meat away from people. There’s no good in a society of people who only avoid meat because they’re forced to by the law, you’d want them to actually care about the animals.
Firstly, it’s not Lyme that causes the red meat allergy, it’s a different disease. Second, that’s ticks, not mosquitoes. Third, is there actually a source for this? I read a fearmongering article suggesting the same based on some theoretical ethics paper, but there was absolutely no evidence to suggest it’s been done.
The red meat allergy from one of the tick diseases is real. I’ve never heard of it from mosquitoes.
Sorry, I should’ve been more clear. I was asking for evidence regarding the claim people had been releasing these disease-carrying ticks.
