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Can mosquitos carry HIV or other diseases?


If someone who has HIV or Hepatitis B / C or any other blood transferred disease gets bitten by a mosquito, and then that mosquito (who has taken blood) bites someone else, will that someone else then be infected?
Off to Asia this year and sorting out vaccinations and preventions.

I know that it seems like it should be likely, but in fact, no, mosquitoes cannot transmit a disease like Hepatitis or HIV. It is possible for them them to transmit West Nile Virus, and Malaria,though. This is the way those diseases are spread. Seems strange, doesn't it??. I mean, they say a virus can't be killed, and yet they say that chemical changes in the blood in the mosquito takes place, and it can't spread things like Hep or AIDs. If this is true, maybe we should be looking to the mosquito for a way to prevent these diseases, doesn't that seem like the thing to do???..

HIV is a fragile virus and does not survive well outside the human body. Once in the mosquito, the virus would die very quickly. HIV is a labile virus, the mosquito's digest the blood cells and destroy them and once a mosquito has had a blood feed, it does not immediately need another.

The official government line is that mosquitoes cannot transfer HIV.
The fact that a hypodermic needle can, leaves me with an open mind on this. I would like to see more independent research on this.

No.

Mosquitos do not transmit HIV or Hepatitis.

They spread diseases like malaria, yellow fever and dengue.

HIV, Hep B/C can only be transmitted through sharing of needles, blood transfusion and sexual intercourse. mosquito spreads malaria, dengue, etc. so the answer is no...

Maleria yes, HIV no. If mosquitos spred HIV nodody wud go abroad and every one in hot countries wud b HIV positive!

malaria , not hiv or hep.

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