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Can Mosquitoes’ bites block the hypothesized species jump which leads to the emergence of new viruses? A hypothesis, after reviewing history and geography.

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Disease pathology
Neurosurgery.

Abstract

Abstract
Some people have no choice but to get in contact with animals, but this contact is accused of being the main cause of the emergence of new viruses. Novel and creative ways of thinking are needed to reveal the mystery of the reasons that led to the emergence of the viral epidemics and try to treat them.
In our opinion, humankind has been exposed to viral pandemics or at least viral outbreaks in places where, and times when, humans have come close to achieving success in eliminating mosquitoes. And we think that the temporal and local linking between the most important mosquito elimination procedure (which is fighting malaria) and the occurrence of viral pandemics will help in answering many of the questions that have been asked about these pandemics.
For viruses, “Species jumps", a jump between one host species and humans is one of the main steps in the emergence process. Not all mosquito bites are similar; there are three possibilities that can occur to a human or animal after a mosquito bite depending on the mosquito's health status. We hypothesize that, a one category of mosquito bites stands as a front block against the “Species jumps". This blocking wall will fall if mosquitoes are eliminated which will open the way for new viruses to emerge.
Our hypothesis assumes that, mosquitoes are "natural vaccinators", as long as humans are able to get rid of insect-borne diseases in ways other than vector eradication.

DOI

10.21608/smj.2021.52799.1214

Keywords

Mosquitos, species jump, viruses

Authors

First Name

Hassan

Last Name

Elnady

MiddleName

Mohammed

Affiliation

Department of Neurology and Psychological medicine, Faculty of medicine, Sohage University, Sohag, Egypt

Email

hass_elnady@yahoo.com

City

Sohae

Orcid

0000-0002-1904-9248

First Name

Ali

Last Name

Ghweil

MiddleName

Abdelrahman

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt.

Email

alimena1@yahoo.com

City

Qena

Orcid

-

First Name

Tamer

Last Name

Abdellah

MiddleName

Mohamed Mahmoud

Affiliation

Medical Microbiology and Immunity department, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt.

Email

tamermmm2000@yahoo.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Ashraf

Last Name

Khodeary

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Clinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohâg, Egypt.

Email

khodery11@gmail.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Safaa

Last Name

Khalaf

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

Email

safaakhalaf@med.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

0000-0001-7974-8086

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Saif-Al-Islam

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag. Egypt

Email

mahmoud_elislam@med.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

0000-0003-3311-3354

Volume

25

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

23098

Issue Date

2021-04-01

Receive Date

2020-12-28

Publish Date

2021-04-01

Page Start

14

Page End

22

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/article_161280.html

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=161280

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3

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Original Article

Type Code

785

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Sohag Medical Journal

Publication Link

https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Can Mosquitoes’ bites block the hypothesized species jump which leads to the emergence of new viruses? A hypothesis, after reviewing history and geography.

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Created At

22 Jan 2023