Can a mosquito spread AIDS

Can Mosquitoes spread AIDS?

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HIV is spread mainly in two ways: through unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person, or through sharing drug needles or syringes with an infected person. HIV is not passed by everyday social contact. Touching, hugging, and shak…

Do mosquitoes spread aids?

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Absolutely not. If mosquitoes spread HIV, then everyone would be at equal risk for disease, and not just those few risk groups that we know of, and have known of for over twenty years. In order for a mosquito, or any insect, to transmit a v…

Why mosquito cannot spread AIDS?

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i found this Why you don’t get AIDS From Mosquitoes ･ 1. HIV the virus that can lead to AIDS does not survive, nor multiply in a mosquito’s body. ･ 2. When a mosquito bites you, it literally bites a little hole in your skin and first inject…

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If a mosquito can spread malaria from human to human, what stops it spreading aids from human to human?

Q: Since malaria is spread by mosquito’s sucking blood from an infected person and then sucks blood from a non infected person – why can’t this happen with aids as it is blood to blood contact?

A: From the start of the HIV epidemic there has been concern about HIV transmission from biting and bloodsucking insects, such as mosquitoes. However, studies conducted by the CDC and elsewhere have shown no evidence of HIV transmission from mosquitoes or any other insects – even in areas where there are many cases of AIDS and large populations of mosquitoes. Lack of such outbreaks, despite intense efforts to detect them, supports the conclusion that HIV is not transmitted by insects.The results of experiments and observations of insect biting behavior indicate that when an insect bites a person, it does not inject its own or a previously bitten person’s or animal’s blood into the next person bitten. Rather, it injects saliva, which acts as a lubricant so the insect can feed efficiently. Diseases such as yellow fever and malaria are transmitted through the saliva of specific species of mosquitoes. However, HIV lives for only a short time inside an insect and, unlike organisms that are transmitted via insect bites, HIV does not reproduce (and does not survive) in insects. Thus, even if the virus enters a mosquito or another insect, the insect does not become infected and cannot transmit HIV to the next human it bites.Malaria is caused by a parasite that is transmitted from person to person by the bite of an Anopheles mosquito. Anopheles bite during the nighttime and are present in almost all countries in the tropics and subtropics.Hope this helps.Rick the pharmacist

If AIDS can be spread bloodborne, cant mosquitos spread it too?

Q: Can mosquito spread AIDS from person to person?

A: There is no evidence to suggest Mosquito’s spread HIV/Aids..The reason is probably that HIV is a labile virus, the mosquito’s digest the blood cells and destroy them.. once a mosquito has had a blood feed, it does not immediately need another.Rhianna

What prevents mosquito to spread aids??

Q: it s generally known that body liquid causes medium to spread aids to another person than why mosquito are not a medium of AIDS even they bite a person with aids.

A: i think the required viral titre to cause AIDS is pretty high compared in hep B/Coooo… i found out the answer. its bcos the mosquito digest the rbc along with the viral particle. but in malaria they have natural life cycle in mosquitoes.