Talk:Slaughter-House Cases

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The mosquito that is the principle carrier of yellow fever, Aedes aegypti, is not a scavenger, requiring blood meals of live red blood cells, and therefore does not feed on dead animal tissue. Furthermore, the concept of mosquitoes being the vector for yellow fever was not discovered until 1900 by Walter Reed, MD. The paragraph that states that mosquitoes feasting on offal were the cause of yellow fever is not only factually incorrect, but is therefore also anachronistic with respect to this 1873 SCOTUS case. (They simply wouldn't have known this, even if it were true.) I will let someone else rewrite this paragraph, as I lack the desire to do so due to my unwillingness to be flamed and edit-warred by other "editors". And we wonder why the numbers of Wikipedia editors are declining......216.137.246.141 (talk) 11:26, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is only adult mosquitoes that need fresh blood. Their larvae are filter feeders, and thus they may well eat the bacteria that are fed in turn by "offal".

Adult mosquitos that feed on blood don't care if it's fresh. I know because I get bit all the time and I'm a ZOOOOOOMBIIEEEEE!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.74.165.96 (talk) 06:52, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

okay... 194.167.101.32 (talk) 15:50, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]