Slap the mosquito that is sucking blood to death

A mosquito is sucking blood. Do you slap it with a slap to make it "break into pieces" to relieve the hatred in your heart, or do you? Bounce it away? When you read a report in an authoritative medical journal that "slapping a blood-sucking mosquito to death can lead to death," do you still dare to express your hatred? The origin of the incident is a report in the New England Journal of Medicine: A 57-year-old woman in Pennsylvania, USA, died after killing a mosquito and causing her muscles to be infected by the fungus Microsporidium. die. Researchers speculate that the woman swatted the mosquito to death on her skin, and the smashed mosquito remains entered the skin, causing infection. Since the New England Journal of Medicine is the longest continuously published medical journal in the world, this matter has attracted more attention from netizens. It's almost horrifying that swatting a blood-sucking mosquito can lead to death. Some experts have analyzed that when a mosquito sucks blood, it will leave a wound on the skin. If it is suddenly swatted to death while it is sucking blood, the mosquito's mouthparts will not have time to pull out, so the wound on the human skin will not heal. The deadly fungi carried by mosquitoes may invade the body along with wounds that have not had time to heal, causing bacterial infection and eventually leading to death. Of course, if a person already has a wound on his or her body and is infected with the fungus carried by the mosquito that was swatted to death, it will also be very dangerous. The "murderous case" of mosquitoes triggered heated discussions among netizens. Coyle, one of the authors of an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that swatting mosquitoes can kill people, from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, made a serious point. A seemingly funny suggestion: "If a mosquito is biting someone, it's better to flick it away gently rather than slap it to death." Many netizens launched a heated discussion on the "murderous crimes" caused by mosquitoes. Many netizens said: "It's too scary. I don't dare to fight mosquitoes anymore." Some people even half-humorously and half-seriously said: "Then this means, you will either be beaten to death or itched to death!" "Why? What a joke! I have killed countless blood-sucking mosquitoes since I was born. I have died a hundred times, and I am not living well now!" One netizen thought this kind of incident was incredible. More netizens questioned it. Such a thing is unlikely to happen under normal circumstances. Professor Li Pingfei, deputy chief physician of the Pest Control Department of the Changsha Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that such incidents are very rare, and the probability of such an event can only be said to be "very, very low." Although mosquitoes spread many diseases, whether people will get sick depends on two factors: one is the virulence and quantity of the virus, and the other is the strength or weakness of the human body's resistance. When the body's resistance is strong and the virus is weak, the virus is eliminated. On the contrary, people will get sick. Li Pingfei introduced that the pathogens of most mosquito-borne diseases must first enter the mosquito's body to multiply and develop, and then be released through saliva before they can infect humans. This is an indispensable link in the natural cycle of pathogens. Mosquitoes are the most important vectors of insect-borne infectious diseases. Therefore, the Changsha Center for Disease Control and Prevention monitors mosquitoes in our city relatively comprehensively, including the mosquito trap lamp method developed by taking advantage of the "phototaxis" of mosquitoes and the mosquito trap egg trap. method and water collection container method, etc. Therefore, killing a person by swatting a blood-sucking mosquito is unlikely to happen in Changsha, and citizens do not need to panic.