Of mosquitoes, no danger goes out in the Corona pandemic, according to previous findings.
The novel Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 be transmitted by droplet infection – the bite of a mosquito, the Virus was said to the current knowledge, not in the body, mosquito expert, Doreen Werner of the Leibniz-centre for agricultural landscape research (ZALF), the German press Agency.
The Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO expert on infections that can be transmitted from animal to human or Vice versa is confirmed.
Studies have mosquitoes with different parasite too busy and no Transmission is detected.
“These viruses have specific affinities to certain types, and you can only dock with specific cells – you can not put any kind of infect that you come in contact with,” said Ben Embarek.
According to Werner’s figures, there are in Germany more than 50 mosquito species. For the formation of the eggs, the mosquito required females protein from five to six so-called “blood meals”. A mosquito can lay hundreds of eggs per oviposition.
Whether it comes this year to a mosquito infestation, depends on the weather conditions. “Mosquitoes like it warm and humid. Ideal standing and the fluctuations are the end bodies of water such as puddles, rain barrels or falling high water.”
In floodplains along the Danube, Rhine and Elbe, or in extensive bog areas, the Population on the you is test.
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Mosquitoes could be a nuisance, but in the food chain of nature is very useful. The larvae were used as fish feed or food for other insects, adult mosquitoes as food for birds and bats.
In a mosquito Atlas ZALF in Brandenburg captures of münchberg, together with the Federal research Institute for animal health, the distribution of the different species of mosquitoes in Germany. Basis of submissions from the public.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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