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What happens to blood when mosquitoes drink it? how does it become contaminated with disease?
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Mosquito Bites: Are you asking about what happens to a human's blood when a mosquito bites and sucks blood? Germs in the mosquito's saliva can mingle with the human's blood leading to infection.
Answered 5/4/2015
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