Ok, I've searched and I've asked around and it seems that no one can answer a seemingly easy question.
So you're sitting there and you feel the old annoying pesky little ****** bite you so you give her a good slap while she still has her proboscis stuck in your flesh. You kill her and squash her into now an unresembled grey smear on your arm/leg whatever. Well my question is, what happens to the proboscis embedded in your flesh when you slapped her? When you're bitten there are the mandibles in your flesh, the hypodermic that's injecting you with saliva and the proboscis is in you. That's lots of miniscule bits of mozzie in you! Are the mouth pieces ripped off and are now in your arm? Are the bits pulled out with the body? What goes on?
Not sure but I guess our skin is fairly tough and is used to dealing with these sorts of situations. Its a natural reaction to kill a mosquito and its quite satisfying too.
Some people suffer from skin rashes or other reactions to mosquito bites. Others don't.
We get a heap of mozzies where we live on the GC but they never seem to bite me. My wife on the other hand gets eaten alive and was recently diagnosed with Ross River which is truly f***ed. Now on a mission to kill all the buggers!
Probably treated exactly the same as if you had a splinter. The body surrounds it in 'stuff' and tries to eject it. (Notice my highly technical medical description!).
If humans couldn't survive this, we wouldn't have made it this far.
I do agree with the Doctor though, don't go near a teleporter until you are clean. You might have seen what happened to Jeff Goldblum.
So there's 6 parts. 2 of them split on your skin surface, 2 teeth/semicircular needles go in and bore the hole through the skin, then 2 tubes go in the hole, one for sucking and one for excreting anticoagulant to keep the blood flowing. Nice.
I am a bit surprised you haven't been strung up on here for killing a mozzie.
What no one gonna say...its their world too,they have a right to bite us,we shouldn't be in their territory, its your own fault if you get bitten,they were here first....blah bla bla.....or is that rule only for sharks? ![]()