2006-08-01 00:18:09 · 15 answers · asked by honneebear2u 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
There are no bugs that are proven to transmit blood borne illnesses. Mosquitos do not transmit illnesses.. neither do any other blood sucking bugs.
There are biting insects that cause diseases, but they do not come from blood or having bit an infected person.
Even though biting insects feeding apparatus looks like a syringe, it actually operates very differently. In a biting insect, the food canal (to suck up the blood) is completely separate from the salivary canal (to send the anticoagulant from the mosquito to the host). This means that the blood flow is one-way, from the host to the biting insect only.
Biting insects that ingest HIV-infected blood digest that blood within 1 or 2 days, completely destroying any virus particles. Since the virus does not survive to reproduce and invade the salivary glands, the mechanism that most insect biting-born parasites use to get from one host to the next is not possible with HIV.
2006-08-01 00:24:10 · answer #1 · answered by Imani 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, depends on the sickness, and what kind of bug, and your hygiene.
For example, if a flea bites you, and you bath alot, and it was the flu. No, you will not get the flu.
If for example, a mosquito bites you, you bath, and it was the west nile virus. you will get the west nile virus (but it might not nescesarly infect you, to the point that you know about it).
If a spider bites you, you dont bath, and it's the comon cold, you will not get the same cold that the person had before you.
If a mosquito bites you, and it bit someone with AIDS, and then bites you, you will not get AIDS.
If a tick bites you, and has lyme diease, you may or may not get lyme diease. It really depends.
It depends on if the sickness, is bacterial, virus, Fungus, ect.
It also depends on if the insect is big enough, or has a big enough sack, to carry the sickness.
Flies can get you sick, even if they dont 'bite' you. They carry dirt, and bacteria on their exoskeleton, but enough of that bacteria that if it lands on your own food, and walks around long enough, will be transfered to your food, if your stomach already has immunity to this bacteria, that the fly had at that particular time, it probably wont affect you, but if you dont then you will get sick.
There are alot of diseases and ailments that insects can carry, and there are others that they cant. Some diseases, will die inside the bug before the bug can get to you, because our bodies are not like insects, not all of the diseases can survive in a bug for a long length of time. generally when a bug bites you, it has had its meal for a good long time, and wont usually jump from person to person.(not usually) and you have to think, when you're sick, the illness, is not in every single aspect of all your limbs, and skin, so the chances of the bug actually biting you, and drawing out that illness, isn't very likely.
You're more likely to get sick, being in the same room as a person, who is touching everything, than by a bug. unless the sickness is blood only.
2006-08-01 00:28:18 · answer #2 · answered by anjui63 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some human diseases can spread in this way but mostly like the bug that is doing the spreading is the female misquitoe. The only thing that I can tell you is that to make sure that you wear long sleeves and long pants and use bug spray. However, anyone that lives in the state of Texas should also know that no matter what you wear those little critters still bite through.LOL
2006-08-01 01:27:44 · answer #3 · answered by pacifia1977 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some infections travel this way, but not AIDS for some reason. Not all but some. Not enough to worry about. Sex and needles are the main way. Also cuts and getting someones blood into your cut. Keep insect repellant on because of other issues, but do not worry about AIDS there are other worries with bugs. Mosquitos in particular.
2006-08-01 00:24:26 · answer #4 · answered by adobeprincess 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm no entomologist, so don't quote me on it when I say it's very possible. Insects are known for carrying diseases and spreading them through bites. Mosquito's are known for carrying malaria and recently the West Nile Virus. Tick's can carry Lyme's disease. Now if you're referring to something like the cold or flu, I don't really see that happening as much a disease, because that ould be much harder to pin the cause on just an insect bite.
2006-08-01 00:27:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's exactly how the plague and malaria are spread. One by fleas biting infected people/animals and then biting you. The other by mosquitos doing the same thing.
Fortunately, biting bugs can't transmit HIV, there's not enough in whatever blood they get, and the enzymes in that bug's saliva will start to kill it. HIV is actaully very fragile outside of the bloodstream.
2006-08-01 03:32:17 · answer #6 · answered by sandand_surf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends upon the particular sickness,but in general there are a large number of diseases that are spread by insect bites including malaria,Ross River fever,dengue fever,bubonic plague and numerous other things.
2006-08-01 00:26:15 · answer #7 · answered by mystic_master3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see why not
2006-08-01 00:21:34 · answer #8 · answered by miss_gem_01 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes... If the bitten before blood is transfered to your blood...
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2016-08-28 14:39:16 · answer #10 · answered by sykes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋