just wondering?
2006-07-12 15:32:56 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
no
2006-07-12 15:35:07 · answer #1 · answered by tiko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question. I believe the answer is 'scientists don't think so' (and I'm pretty sure they will have looked into it, given how big a problem AIDs is in Africa). The AIDs virus is pretty fragile, I don't think it would live long enough inside a mosquito. To infect the next person the mosquito bit, the virus would have to avoid the mosquito digesting it, live long enough for the mosquito to get hungry again, and get from the mosquito's stomach to its salivary glands: mosquito-borne diseases like malaria have special adaptations to do all that (malaria blocks the mosquito's digestion and infects the mosquito), but the AIDs virus doesn't: it's designed to infect human (originally chimpanzee) immune system and nervous system cells, not mosquito stomach wall or salivary gland cells.
2006-07-12 15:42:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Nola mosquitoes could bite a person who has aids but they do not inject the aids virus when they bite. I live in Chincoteague VA an island surrounded by marshland (where mosquitoes live). If they caused aids people would be dropping like flies here. But no cases have been found.
2006-07-12 15:46:11 · answer #3 · answered by Nexil 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as aids is an imune system based disease YES it can be carried by mosquitosfrom person to person if they drink from an infected person and then a non infected person the chances are slim but under the right conditions it would in theory be possible.
as for if they can be infected that is adifferent question and i have no idea.
2006-07-12 15:40:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mosquitos carry blood
blood carries aids
so yes? i think
2006-07-12 15:40:58 · answer #5 · answered by ניקול 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only those of impure blood can acquire the virus that causes AIDS.
2006-07-12 15:35:26 · answer #6 · answered by Mort 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope
2006-07-12 15:35:17 · answer #7 · answered by M_J_S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can Mosquitoes Carry Aids
2017-02-27 14:43:50 · answer #8 · answered by beurket 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they can carry aids, but can not infect you with it as they do not release enough blood into your system
2006-07-12 15:38:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
apparently not the virus can only live for nine seconds out of a host and mossies aren't social
2006-07-12 15:37:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend of mine has HIV and you can not get it from a mosqito,exa..if 1 bites him and then bites me or anyone else they wont be infected.
2006-07-12 15:36:21 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋