phil777 wrote:
Not related to Michael Savage, but i've come up with a hypothesis that the virus could spread faster through mosquito bites. <.< Being an insect that takes your blood multiple times per day (when it gets away with it

) it wouldn't be all that far fetched if it became a new vector for the virus. =/ something to watch out for.
It is an influenza virus - there is no good evidence that influenza is spread by mosquito, and some good evidence it isn't spread by mosquito.
Ok, here is something interesting that says maybe mosquitoes could be a factor - they showed that H5N1 can multiply in mosquitoes. That is usually a necessary step in mosquitoes being a vector, but is not sufficient, and they didn't actually test if the mosquitoes could spread that form of flu.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18279078Yellow fever or St. Louis encephalitis, on the other hand, can definitely be spread by mosquitoes.
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Related to Michael Savage:
He is generally not worth discussing, as he is far more interested in being inflammatory than in being attached to reality.