Updated 06/25/2020 at 18:05
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The Italian National Health Institute and an institute specializing in animal research have concluded that Covid-19 cannot be carried by mosquitoes.
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A study released Thursday by the Italian National Institute of Health shows that mosquitoes do not transmit the coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) had already said that there was no evidence that the disease could be transmitted by these insects, which are however likely to carry malaria, dengue or other diseases when they bite humans.
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But the latest study, carried out in collaboration with the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of the Veneto (IZSVe), an animal health research organization, demonstrated that the tiger mosquito or the common mosquito did not transmit Covid-19.
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“Tests have shown that the virus, transmitted to mosquitoes by ingesting infected blood, has not been able to duplicate,” the institute said in a statement. It is therefore impossible for insects to transmit the virus through their bites.
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(AFP)
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