Can Mosquitoes spread AIDS?

Every year, about 250 million people are infected with malaria. Mosquitoes also spread encephalitis, yellow fever, dengue fever, meningitis and more.

But do they spread aids? It seems to me if they can spread all those other diseases it could be possible.

Discussion please and if you have any facts that they do or don't, please share your information.

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 shaking hands with an infected person is safe. Some people think they may get HIV by donating blood. This is not so. A new needle is used for every donor, and you do not come into contact with anyone else's blood. Donated blood is now always screened for HIV, therefore, the risk of getting it from a blood transfusion in the United States is very, very low.
Kissing an infected person on the cheek or with dry lips is not a known risk. No cases of AIDS or of HIV infection due to kissing have ever been reported.The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is not spread easily.
You can only get HIV if you get infected blood or sexual fluids into your system.
You can't get it from mosquito bites, coughing or sneezing, sharing household items, or swimming in the same pool as someone with HIV.

One of the most prevalent myths about HIV transmission is that mosquitoes or other bloodsucking insects can infect you. There is no scientific evidence to support this claim. To see why mosquitos don't aid in the transmission of HIV, we can look at the insect's biting behavior.

When a mosquito bites someone, it does not inject its own blood or the blood of an animal or person it has bitten into the next person it bites. The mosquito does inject saliva, which acts as a lubricant so that it can feed more effectively. Yellow fever and malaria can be transmitted through the saliva, but HIV does not reproduce in insects, so the virus doesn't survive in the mosquito long enough to be transmitted in the saliva.

Additionally, mosquitoes don't normally travel from one person to another after ingesting blood. The insects need time to digest the blood meal before moving on.

No. 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.

There also is no reason to fear that a mosquito or other insect could transmit HIV from one person to another through HIV-infected blood left on its mouth parts. Several reasons help explain why this is so. First, infected people do not have constantly high levels of HIV in their blood streams. Second, insect mouth parts retain only very small amounts of blood on their surfaces. Finally, scientists who study insects have determined that biting insects normally do not travel from one person to the next immediately after ingesting blood. Rather, they fly to a resting place to digest the blood meal.

this is what the website says:

HIV is not transmitted by mosquitoes, flies, ticks, fleas, bees or wasps. If a bloodsucking insect bites someone with HIV, the virus dies almost instantly in the insect's stomach (as it digests the blood). HIV can only live in human cells.

Mosquitoes cannot transmit HIV for two reasons:

The mosquito draws blood and injects saliva. The blood from one person is not injected into the mosquito's next victim.
HIV dies in the mosquito's body. People sometimes are confused because malaria actually reproduces inside the mosquito's digestive tract, using the insect as part of its life cycle. HIV does not.
These facts are confirmed by looking at infection patterns. In areas where mosquitoes are common and where HIV is prevalent, the distribution of AIDS cases in the population is not different from other areas. If mosquitoes transmitted HIV, they would be seeing a disproportionate number of children and elderly infected in those areas.

NO,the reason mosquitoes can not spread aids is because aids is a very frail disease (it can not live out of the body very long) when a mosquito peirce's the skin it injects a fluid to thin the blood so it can extract it(which causes that red bump),this fluid kills the aids virus instantly. (mosquitoes don't die of aids).

No. Malaria is caused by a certain type of parasite that not only survives but also reproduces in the mosquito. HIV is a virus, HIV doesn鈥檛 do so well outside the human body. Once in the mosquito, the HIV would die very quickly. The mosquito never becomes HIV-infected, and nobody has ever become HIV-infected from a mosquito bite.

I would seem that they could, but so far it appears that the virus cannot live in the mosquito's mouth secretions, including that minuscule bit of material they secrete into your skin when they bite. So, at least for the present, the best answer appears to be "no". Thank goodness, eh? The other illnesses you mention are quite enough reason to push for mosquito eradication and personal protection.

Yes.. mosquitoes can, if the person or thing that the mosquito had gotten blood from has aids they could give it to u when the mosquito bites u

even tho a mosquitoes mouth is a 1 way valve n it cant give u the"mixed" blood it the out side of it mouth that will get u infected

NO, THEY CANNOT. When a mosquito sucks blood from someone who is HIV positive, the virus is digested along with the blood, thus terminating the transmission. And AIDS is only spread by direct contact with infected blood and sexual contact.

erm well i have herd of them spreading all of what you sadi above but no aids . because surley there would be injections against there bites or some thing like that. its some thing you might wanna look up as im not 100% sure lol your very clever for thinking about that tho x

i don't think they spread aids but they do spread HIV as when they suck blood and then suck someone else's blood a little of the previous persons blood is still on them and that can get into the blood system.

Mosquitoes do not spread aids because they only suck blood they do not mix blood from different donors. A mosquitoes can however carry the disease

they cant spread aids, when they bite someone and fly away the blood cools to a temperature usualy below 90 degrees, the aids virus cant live if the blood isnt warm enough

Possible if they spit blood instead of the other thing.
Anywayz that happens to rarely but theres other possible ways to die by mosquitoes.So be careful

No. Mosquitoes cant spread HIV infection. The virus dies by the time the mosquito bites another man.

YES: blood into blood. Logical.

No because aids or hiv cant live in the mosquitoes body.

AIDS is spread through the exchange of body fluids.

no, mosqitos dont suck people with AIDs' blood. Only people with sweet blood.

No

yes

yes it can, it's like sharing a needle.


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Yes! :P

Yes, AIDS can be carried thru blood, and mosquitos can transfer blood.

I think they are more known for spreading EEE (Triple E) but I'm sure they could.

WELL GEE, I DONT KNOW HOW DO YOU THINK?

Yes they can. WEAR A LOT OF BUG SPRAY! lol! :-)