A jelly fish or a mosquito bites a person with hiv and minutes later it bites you, can you contract hiv?

Answer 1

This has been asked many times in Y.A.

"There are three theoretical mechanisms which would allow blood-sucking insects such as mosquitoes to transmit HIV.

1. In the first mechanism, a mosquito would initiate the cycle by feeding on an HIV positive carrier and ingest virus particles with the blood meal. For the virus to be passed on, it would have to survive inside the mosquito, preferably increase in numbers, and then migrate to the mosquito's salivary glands. The infected mosquito would then seek its second blood meal from an uninfected host and transfer the HIV from its salivary glands during the course of the bite. This is the mechanism used by most mosquito-borne parasites, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue, and the encephalitis viruses.

2. In the second mechanism, a mosquito would initiate the cycle by beginning to feed on an HIV carrier and be interrupted after it had successfully drawn blood. Instead of resuming the partial blood meal on its original host, the mosquito would select an AIDS-free person to complete the meal. As it penetrated the skin of the new host, the mosquito would transfer virus particles that were adhering to the mouthparts from the previous meal. This mechanism is not common in mosquito-borne infections, but equine infectious anemia is transmitted to horses by biting flies in this manner.

3. The third theoretical mechanism also involves a mosquito that is interrupted while feeding on an HIV carrier and resumes the partial blood meal on a different individual. In this scenario, however, the AIDS-free host squashes the mosquito as it attempts to feed and smears HIV contaminated blood into the wound. In theory, any of the mosquito-borne viruses could be transmitted in this manner providing the host circulated sufficient virus particles to initiate re-infection by contamination.

Each of these mechanisms has been investigated with a variety of blood sucking insects and the results clearly show that mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS. News reports on the findings, however, have been confusing, and media interpretation of the results has not been clear. The average person is still not convinced that mosquitoes are not involved in the transmission of a disease that appears in the blood, is passed from person to person and can be contracted by persons that share hypodermic needles."

Answer 2

The jellyfish is a sting and it is different than a bite. Mosquitoes do not spread the virus because of the physiology of them. It has been answered before that the virus does not live in the salivary glands of a mosquito.

Answer 3

um...jelly fish dn't bite, they sting. Unless they end up getting the other persons fluids on them and then transfer these fluids into YOU, then NO. but i don't think this happens, so the answer to the jelly fish one is no. As for the mosquito - YES you can.

Answer 4

Sound possible, but not probable. It's such a small amount of blood. Not every ounce of an HIV+ person's body fluids are contaminated. There are documented situations (the character that the movie "Philadelphia" is based on one) where one partner is infected for years without knowing it, they share bodily fluids on a regular basis and doesn't get infected.

Answer 5

NOO,mosquito bite does not transmit Hiv
HIV stands for only human,mosquito is not a human
so dont spread stupid information

Answer 6

jelly fish no Mosquito very slight risk

Answer 7

Of Course you can! Just because you were bitten by a mosquito or jellyfish, doesn't make you immune!

Answer 8

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/hivinf.htm

Answer 9

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