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>>15573816
>nature finds a way
And? Let's say 1/100 of the male mosquitos can breed. You have 99 other mating encounters that result in sterile eggs. Nature found a way 1/100 times. doesn't change the 99 other encounters.


>How do you guarantee it was the infected mosquito and not a bad cold, the flu, or some other reason?
pic related, and the fact that these infections were DELAYED. They took drugs to delay infection! With a wimpy strain too, Coatny et al used a different strain that was resistant, and it took a couple of months.
A-22 in >>15573804 was a control, he had results 13 days after infection. Relapsing months later.
A-19 in that result is selected from one of the drug trials, as he was treated with quinine sulfate which did jack shit to delay the infections.
A-2 was an example of the drugged group, primary fever and blood thickening didnt start until 300 days
across the entire set of prisoners, only around half had a delayed reaction, with antibody tests showing positive results, while the control or unresponsive prisoners have a spike in thick smears early-on

there are multiple signs of infection (blood thickening and antibody-antigen tests) shown in their aggregated graph of the entire study, what it doesn't show is the boring numbers of people who got multiple relapses across the control group. Everyone got sick by ~7-12 months later, some continuing to be sick until the end, but at different times late in the study.