Something I've not seen addressed about Ebola. Can a mosquito bite a person with Ebola

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11. We must be related. I worry sometimes that Feline Leukemia virus might

be spread by flea bites in certain limited circumstances.

Mind you, there is no published scientific data that says this. It's just one of those things that makes me go hmmmmm.

I seriously doubt that ebola is a vector-borne disease of any significance. Is it perhaps possible that it could happen in rare circumstances? I'm probably the wrong person to ask.

I do know that Ebola survives well in liquid blood, and survives especially well in cold temperatures if kept moist. There is probably something inherently inhospitable about a mosquito's gut to the virus, or it would be as common as malaria in Africa. So that alone argues for it not being arthropod-borne at all or only extremely rarely.

The virologists and epidemiologists generally have these things figured out long before we even get out of bed in the morning.