Originally Posted by hobbes
Vidcc,
Those little buggers inject you with a local anesthetic so that you won't feel them leeching your blood. Your skin reaction is the body's response to this injected chemical. Since there are many types of mosquito, there are different types of anesthetic and your body may respond differently to each one. In Missouri, I didn't react much too much to the local type, but these Texas mosquitos really give me a big skin wheal.
Point being, the skin reaction has nothing to do with the Nile Virus. The Nile virus gets access to your blood stream at the site of the bite, but that is not where the Nile Virus intiates illness.
And "yes", you will die, but that will be far into the future. I suspect you will be mauled by a senile carebear.