I was recently asked if you could get aids
or hiv from a mosquito and I know you cant
because they have a certain enzyme that
prevents them from spreading it but could
you please give me more detail or and
information web site I could go to. Thank
you for your help.
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LAWRENCE
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Oct 2003 Posts: 14 Location: NEW JERSEY
I Often Have the Same Question Posted: 11-01-03 00:43am
If a mosquito can spread malaria, west
nile and all sorts of diseases through out
history, why can't they spread aids? Or
even those biting flys. I have killed
many mosquitos and biting flys and many
times they will have blood inside of them.
Explain to me why if that mosquisto or
biting fly freshly bites someone with aids
and then bites me, how come I can't get
infected? I think that I could, but
science and the government don't want to
start a mass panic by telling the public.
I think a large number of those infected
probably got it from some kind of insect
bite...But then again, I am very stubborn
and wont believe otherwise without firm
scientific proof.
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NicNat
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Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Canada
Posted: 04-02-04 03:56am
Because that's just plain not how you're
infected with west nile. The mosquito is
not secrting infected blood to you. I
have recently seen a website that
addressed this. I'll look for it and get
back to you.
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NicNat
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Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Canada
Posted: 04-02-04 04:00am
"no, hiv/aids cannot be transmitted from
an insect to a human. Take the example of
malaria and mosquitoes. Malaria gets into
the blood of a mosquito and lodges itself
into the salivary glands of the mosquito.
It is then transmitted into a human
through the saliva of the mosquito. The
malaria protozoan can mutate and develop
in the saliva of the mosquito. Hiv is a
virus that reproduces in the blood cells
that a human has not the cells of an
insect. Hiv/aids needs a different kind
of host than an insect to develop. Hiv
can live in an insect for a very short
amount of time. It will not transfer into
the saliva of a mosquito, which is the
only way a disease is transmitted. It
simply cannot reproduce in a mosquito
because of the lack of blood cells. This
concludes that even if hiv enters a
mosquito or other insect, the insect
cannot become infected and it cannot
transmit hiv to a human. "
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rbob
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Joined: 24 Sep 2007 Posts: 1
Mosquito Bites And Aids Posted: 09-24-07 13:45pm
This concerns me also. I was reading some
websites that say that a mosquito will
digest the virus within 1-2 days, wouldn't
the mosquito's nose that punctures the
skin and retrieves the blood act the same
way a needle would work when someone with
AIDS gives someone else AIDs through the
sharing of needles? If a mosquito went
and drank blood from an infected person
and then immediately went to an uninfected
person and drank their blood, wouldn't
that pass the infection? Not through
their salvitory glands, but through their
skin piercing nose/mouth? I have not seen
a clear answer concerning this particular
area of question. Does anyone know if
this would be a way of passing it. My
mother had told me that my great cousin
John has passed away from AIDS, I never
met him, but she wanted me to come to the
family gathering, I went, it was outdoor,
my great cousin was gay. There were a lot
of gay men there at the gathering that
were friends or something of his, I was
bitten while we were outside by a
mosquito, it concerns me just a little,
that perhaps I was not the first one
bitten at that gathering, and perhaps John
was not the only one that was infected.
Could someone please shed some light on
this subject for me. The subject of the
nose being compared to a needle, not
anything to do with the stomach. I am
pregnant and this is really bugging me.
Thank you!