Can mosquitoes transmit aids?

Question

Just wondering since they suck blood and all?

Sorry just wondering

Answer 1

No...Mosquitos, fleas, and other insects do not transmit HIV. In the U.S., screening the blood supply for HIV has virtually eliminated the risk of infection through blood transfusions, and you can't get HIV from giving blood at a blood bank or other established blood collection center. Sweat, tears, vomit, feces, and urine do contain HIV, but have not been reported to transmit the disease (apart from two cases involving transmission from fecal matter via cut skin).

Answer 2

No, according to the Centers for Disease Control and other respected authorities.

At one point in the eighties when little was known about AIDS, it was believed to be possible. This was mainly because at the time the place where AIDS cases were the highest was Bel Glades, Florida and the mosquito infestation was very bad there especially in the migrant camps. Research soon proved that mosquitoes could not transmit aids. As I recall it had something to do with the substance they insert into you prior to drinking your blood.

Answer 3

No, they cannot. Mosquitoes digest the AIDS virus and thus
transmission cycle is terminated and the virus cannot be passed
on to the next host. When a mosquito transmits a disease from
one person to another, the infectious agent must remain alive
till transfer is completed.

Answer 4

there has been no scientific info to decrease back up that AIDS could be transmitted by way of mosquito bites. So the respond isn't any, yet be careful through fact they nonetheless can transmit different illnesses like the West Niles Virus.

Answer 5

No. When a mosquito feeds on HIV (human immunodeficiency virus - the virus that causes AIDS) infected blood, the virus is treated as food and digested with the blood. If a mosquito takes blood from a person infected with HIV and then bites a non-infected person, the particles are insufficient to cause a new infection. The levels of HIV that are in human blood are very low compared with the viral diseases that are transmissible by insects.

Answer 6

nope... mosquitoes can not transmit aids... aids or the HIV can only be transmitted sexually... it can also be transmitted thru cuts... when u have a cut and u are accidentally spilled with blood like in the case of the nurses in hospitals... well that's just a rare case nowadays... it can be transmitted through blood but not unless u have cuts or wounds which can be the portal of entry of aids virus...

Answer 7

mosquitoes cannot transmit aids since they suck blood only in minute amounts...before sucking they release an anti-clotting factor which is inhibitory for the AIDS virus...also even if the virus enters the mosquito,it does not enter us because the environment in the mosquito is so unfavourable that the virus dies before infecting us

Answer 8

This would be extremely unlikely as the HIV virus is very "fragile" unlike some other viruses such as "West Nile" or malaria which can be transmitted by mosquitoes. While at it probably cannot be definitively ruled out, this would be next to impossible.

Answer 9

NO..because HIV does not live in a mosquito body. Unlike dengue virus which has a cycle completed in a host ( mosqutioes) HIV however is just for humans alone.

Answer 10

no they can't coz to trasmit AIDS there is certain amount of blood that needs to be transferred from the one who has HIV to another person which a tiny mosquito is incapable of doing.