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Can mosquitoes transfer AIDS or HIV??????


Just a question because they could suck someone's blood with HIV or AIDS in it, and when they suck someone elses blood it may transfer to someone else.

No!

yes the can

No.
Mosquitoes Do Not Ingest Enough HIV Particles to Transmit AIDS by Contamination
Insect-borne disease agents that have the ability to be transferred from one individual to the next via contaminated mouthparts must circulate at very high levels in the bloodstream of their host. Transfer by mouthpart contamination requires sufficient infectious particles to initiate a new infection. The exact number of infectious particles varies from one disease to the next. HIV circulates at very low levels in the blood--well below the levels of any of the known mosquito-borne diseases. Infected individuals rarely circulate more that 10 units of HIV, and 70 to 80% of HIV-infected persons have undetectable levels of virus particles in their blood. Calculations with mosquitoes and HIV show that a mosquito that is interrupted while feeding on an HIV carrier circulating 1000 units of HIV has a 1:10 million probability of injecting a single unit of HIV to an AIDS-free recipient. In laymen's terms, an AIDS-free individual would have to be bitten by 10 million mosquitoes that had begun feeding on an AIDS carrier to receive a single unit of HIV from contaminated mosquito mouthparts. Using the same calculations, crushing a fully engorged mosquito containing AIDS positive blood would still not begin to approach the levels needed to initiate infection. In short, mechanical transmission of AIDS by HIV-contaminated mosquitoes appears to be well beyond the limits of probability. Therefore, none of the theoretical mechanisms cited earlier appear to be possible for mosquito transmission of HIV

I wondered about that myself and even my family doctor had no answer.i have done some research however and it seems like the aids virus is very temperature sensitive . It can not live outside the human body because it can not tolerate a drop in temperature.The mosquito 's body is too cold i think.

No, I don't think so.

NO! That is a myth.

The chance is almost nil. Because mosquitoes donot push the blood they have taken in when next time they bite another person. Usually they bite after a while once they have taken some blood. The HIV virusese are very much vulnerable, they can't live long out side the body. Though mosquitoes push some saliva while they bite, that saliva dont get infected with HIV.

No.

that has never happened and probably never will
it is scientifically impossible for the HIV virus to survive in a mosquitoe

no no no no no and no. This has been proven by the CDC to be totally unfounded and I am surprised that this rumor still exists! There are 10 fluids humans come in contact with in a normal day, only 4 are contagious, blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breatmilk. So if you play in any of those fluid you are at risk. If you are worried about mosquitos think Malaria, West Nile.... NOT AIDS

There's a reason it's called HUMAN Immuno-deficiency Virus.

Not sure where lovell got his information, but NO NO NO, HIV does not survive in a mosquito.
There has never been a documented case of such it simply cannot happen, if it did we would all be HIV+ from mosquito bites.

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