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Are Mosquitoes and Alcohol Safe?

If i was drunk and i was bitten by a mosquito, would the mosquito get drunk? Ah, almost certainly not. So if you think how much beer you have to drink to get drunk, the mosquito, body weight for bodyweight, would have to drink a hundred times more. On the other hand, they may be abnormally sensitive to it. elephants are remarkably sensitive to alcohol because they do not have what we humans have - an enzime in the liver called alcohol de hydrogenes which breaks down the alcohol.

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