
All we know about Zika so far...
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Zika
The mosquito itself becomes infected, although it does have, as far as we know, any symptoms from zika. It's not just that it's carrying the infected blood. When it puts its proboscis in your skin to suck out your blood, it also salivates in their right? Which is like a it anastetizes you. And if you have zeka, that zeka goes from your blood into the mosquito's gut,. where the zeka um begins to colonize the mosquito, infect the mosquito, and ultimately, it makes it into its salivary glands.
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