It is best to avoid getting bitten by a mosquito and here is why...getting bitten by a mosquito could result in a great deal of health issues and even death. Let's look at what happens when you get bitten by a mosquito!
By Jennifer Rae Vliet
What Happens To Your Body When It's Bitten By A Mosquito
BY JOEY KEOGH from TheList.com
Mosquitoes must find nothing more delicious than human skin. That's how it feels when you're covered in itchy bites, agonizing over how to avoid scratching. So what really happens when these deadly insects bite us?
The female mosquito lands on your skin and extends her proboscis (a narrow part of the mouth used to retrieve blood) into it as she tries to locate a yummy blood vessel. Mosquitoes aren't teeny vampires, though, they just need protein-rich blood to produce eggs and propagate their species.
The mosquito injects us with a vasodilator, which keeps blood flowing rather than clotting while it feeds. It is this injection of the mosquito's saliva that causes the problem. As Dr. Renee Matthews, MD notes, our body reacts pretty strongly to this. "When a mosquito bites us, our body's immune system creates histamines, causing the skin around the mosquito bite to itch," she advises. Still, you might not notice right away and may even start itching hours later. Likewise, "Redness and swelling are part of the immune reaction, as well."
The Purpose for Mosquitos according to ThoughtCo.com in a column on The Most Interesting Facts About Mosquitos
Why Do Mosquitoes Exist?
Basically, mosquitoes exist because they're next to impossible to wipe out. Species don't exist in a vacuum; as long as they can find food and don't have environmental pressure against them, they'll continue. Mosquitoes are millions of years old as a species. In the ecosystem, they do serve as food for other species (birds, frogs, and fish) and as pollinators. The larvae eat detritus in the water, helping to clean it. There are more than 3,000 species of mosquitoes, but only about 200 bite humans.
So, whats the big deal? Dr. Josh Axe reports that you can actually acquire parasites from a mosquito bite...
How does someone become infected with a parasite?
Believe it or not, a relatively high percentage of adults living in the United States may carry parasites. Where and how does somebody get infected with a parasite?
Parasites are generally acquired from consuming contaminated food or water, but people with imbalanced gut flora, leaky gut syndrome or a weakened immune system may be more susceptible. Some can also be spread through the bite of a mosquito or sand fly, or transmitted to humans from animals such as cows and pigs that are infected with parasites like Cryptosporidium or Trichinella. (SOURCE)
Look what is happening right now in Peru
Brimful clinics, cemeteries as dengue ravages Peru
Piura (Peru) (AFP) – Two months after cyclonic downpours flooded the town of Catacaos in northern Peru, dozens of inhabitants lie sick and dying of dengue, a disease carried by mosquitos attracted by stagnant water.
Near the border with Ecuador, Peru's Piura region is battling a new health crisis even as the South American country is still recovering from the world's highest reported Covid-19 death rate.
This time it is an epidemic of dengue, a viral disease with symptoms ranging from fever, headache and joint pain to bleeding, organ failure and sometimes, death.
The virus is carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that lays its eggs in standing water, of which there is a lot in Piura since cyclone Yaku hit northern Peru in March.
Dozens of people were killed and thousands affected as rivers burst their banks, destroying homes and infrastructure.
Half of the Piura region's 416 clinics were damaged by the cyclone that also paralyzed the local economy as thousands lost their ability to survive from informal jobs.
'Lost control'
By June 13, Piura had reported 82 dengue deaths -- including 11 children -- and more than 44,000 infections since the start of 2023, said the region's rights ombudsman Cesar Orrego.
This was about a third of the national toll of 248 deaths and more than 146,000 infections.
We have lost control" of the epidemic, vector-borne diseases expert Valerie Paz-Soldan of the Cayetano Heredia University in Lima told AFP.
On Thursday, Peru's health minister resigned over her handling of the crisis.
Most of Piura's 1.8 million inhabitants live along the coast.
In Catacaos, an agricultural area, Yaku turned roads into rivers, destroyed the drinking water and sewerage systems, and ruined mango, grape and rice crops.
Water accumulated in open tanks, hollows and containers, multiplying mosquito breeding grounds. In the heart of Catacaos, the football field is still water-logged.
Multiple fumigation efforts failed to stop the epidemic spreading like wild-fire through the town's rickety homes. (SOURCE)
Then we have the Gates meddling in on nature and we know how things go when The Gates' viewpoint on sustaining life goes...this in its best estimation may sound good to environmentalists but the lack of trust with anything "Bill Gates" related needs to be heavily noted here.
A Company Just Released 150K Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in the United States
Genetically modified mosquitoes were just released in the US for the first time, thanks to a biotech firm funded by Bill Gates.
Chris Young of interestingengineering.com
he Bill Gates-backed biotech firm Oxitec is going ahead with plans to release hundreds of millions of gene-altered mosquitos in Florida in order to test an experimental new form of population control, the company confirmed in a press release. The initial batch of mosquitoes was released this week.
The controversial project, conducted as part of a partnership between the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) and Oxitec, will see six locations in the region host Oxitec’s gene-hacked male Aedes aegypti mosquitos over the next few months.
Oxitec — which announced a collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2018 — says the new tests could help to greatly reduce populations of the mosquito breed, which is responsible for spreading diseases such as dengue and malaria.
As Oxitec emphasizes in its press statement, the company's mosquitos are male and, therefore, do not bite.
Instead, they are intended to reduce the number of potentially disease-transmitting female Aedes aegypti by introducing a self-limiting gene that sees offspring die before reaching adulthood.
The firm says the Aedes aegypti accounts for only 4 percent of the mosquito population in the Florida Keys, but is responsible for almost all disease transmission. The company also states that community support for the project is "high."
Controversy amid global plans to gene-hack mosquitos
Still, the method is controversial due to the fact that a genetically altered species is being released into an ecosystem with potentially unknown consequences. Critics have also pointed to the fact that this may open doors for firms to use gene-altered invasive species for other uncontrolled projects.
Oxitec faced a backlash in August 2020, when it originally released its Florida Keys plans. In a press statement at the time, Dana Perls, the food and technology Program Manager at Friends of the Earth, said that "the release of genetically engineered mosquitoes will needlessly put Floridians, the environment and endangered species at risk in the midst of a pandemic."
The Oxitec technology has already been tested in São Paulo, Brazil, where after 13 weeks, it suppressed up to 95 percent of the mosquito species.
Oxitec's isn't the only method for gene-altering mosquitos to curb their populations — this month, it was announced that researchers from Imperial College London have successfully altered the gut genes of mosquitos to spread antimalarial genes to their offspring. The same team had previously used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to eradicate a population of Anopheles gambiae in a lab. (SOURCE)
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Mosquitos are something to avoid and something to respect all at the same time. I personally do what I need to do to keep from being bitten by them and if I happen to get the unfortunate bite, I always have The Bug Bite Thing tool at the ready. This is not a paid sponsorship but worth the mention because this little tool can help reverse what the mosquito deposits into your skin if you can get to it asap.
God had a purpose for all of His creations and expects us to be good stewards of our land and all that He has given us dominion over. There is a way to protect human life first and foremost and we are so advanced that all's it takes is research on ways to handle the problems that mosquitos can cause. When you look around and gene altering endeavors, it is imperative to look ahead and see how that is going to affect the cycle of life for other species but once again, human life is a priority and as you can clearly see, things can get out of hand and very quickly. The liberal agenda and their displaced compassion to a large degree and an outright mission to punish those of us that want to put humans first. They do not want us to harm life and protect even the flea; and by doing so, they have really tilted the scale and have caused a lot of harm to humankind.
In 2011, the state of California banned the usage of an incredibly effective enzymatic treatment of 2-{1-Methyl-2-(4-phenoxphenoxy) ethoxy} pyridine. By doing so, they actually caused what exterminators were calling a SUPER FLEA. They cared more about the fleas then everybody and every other living thing instead. By not being allowed to control the flea population, animals suffered GREATLY and thus as a result, PEOPLE SUFFERED. Exterminators were using their strongest chemicals and still couldn't control the problem. Outside critters suffered, birds, racoons, squirrels, you name it. FINALLY, they allowed the product back into the state in 2017. It was A LONG 6 years, let me tell you!
The bottom line is, get educated, protect yourself, and let's fight for life and be good stewards with what God has given to us, use our noggins and do what needs to be done as God would see fit!
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