Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (2018)

Re:Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human i... by throwawaylinux on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:22PM (#28283328)

Leaving aside the vast differences in physiology and effects of alcohol on humans vs mosquitoes, mosquitos can drink maybe 2x their body weight in blood. If you drunk 500 bottles of 0.5% a/v beer in 10 minutes it would likely have some effect.

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Re:Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human i... by dragonwriter on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:43PM (#28283477)

> If you drunk 500 bottles of 0.5% a/v beer in 10 minutes it would likely have some effect.

If you drank the same amount of 0% ABV water in that time, you’d probably die of water intoxication, so I’m not sure any adverse effects of the alcohol would be noticeable.

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Re:Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human i... by throwawaylinux on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:00PM (#28283994)

I'm thinking exploded stomach.

Point is it could be a lot of alcohol for the mosquito.

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Re:Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human i... by xorcist on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @05:56AM (#28286792)

> If you drunk 500 bottles of 0.5% a/v beer in 10 minutes it would likely have some effect

No, the alcohol wouldn't. Unless you distilled all that beer and ingested the alcohol alone. The massive liquid intake would kill you though.

The liver doesn't store alcohol, so how many grams you ingest in total doesn't matter, only in what concentration. Keep in mind that alcohol is perfectly soluble in water too.

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