can mosquitos pass on HIV or sexual diseases?

Answer 1

Wow, I was wondering just the same thing a few months ago. I did some research. It is highly unlikely for mosquitoes to transmit such diseases. Most of the time mosquitoes don't just go from one person to another before disposing of the blood. Also, if they do hit multiple people in a row, they are unable to release someone else's blood in your bloodstream, they can only suck it in.

Answer 2

There is evidence that mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects can and do pass on HIV. There was a study done a number of years ago, in Belle Glade FL, where there was a high incidence of HIV infection, without the "usual" vectors. This was done through the Center for Disease Control, in Atlanta GA, but, I'm sorry, I don't have the exact reference.

Strictly speaking, HIV is NOT a sexual disease, but is a disease of the immune system, and is part of the family of viruses known as "lenti-viruses". There is a similar disease amongst sheep, which is spread by aerial transmission, when the sheep are confined to close quarters, in conditions where their immunity is compromised (ie like in winter, when they may be coughing on each other).

My understanding is that in some nations of Africa, where people can get between 200 and 300 bites per night, the incidence of HIV infection, is high. I think that mosquitoes are not capable of passing on STD's.

Answer 3

Mosquitoes pass on many diseases to people: malaria and filiarisis are the best known, they are parasites, that cause a great deal of suffering in the world. Mosquitoes can also pass on Viral infections, like dengue, yellow fever, and several others less widely spread, though they are beginning to spread further with the greater amount of travel there is today.
Mosquitoes pass on diseases they have themselves, rather than carrying disease from person to person.
So far as is known, they cannot spread HIV, or other sexual diseases. I know HIV can be spread in blood, but it is not long lived outside the body. I assume that mosquitoes get the blood they need from one person, so they don't go around biting loads of people. They are more interested in laying their eggs. The females have to have the blood for that. The males don't bite.

Answer 4

First: only female mosquitos suck blood, and they only do it when they're about to lay eggs.

Second: they don't take very much (they don't have very big stomachs, after all!), and once they're full, they have to digest it. They wouldn't be able to take a second meal until they've done that.

Third: they fill up off one victim at a time, so they're not likely to jump off one person (who might be HIV positive) and immediately stick their sucker into someone else.

Fourth: as far as I know, the malarial parasite actively migrates to the mosquito's salivary glands, so as to be injected into its host. It doesn't end up in the mosquito's stomach, where it would become "food" for the mosquito.

Fifth: Virus particles have no control where they end up in their host's body, they usually target specific molecular receptors on host cells, e.g. HIV attaches to the CD4 receptor on certain white blood cells (i.e. the cells which mediate immune response in complex organisms, like mammals). That's why HIV destroys the immune system, because the wbc gets hijacked to produce virus, then bursts to release them.

Taken all together, this makes it very unlikely that HIV particles would be injected into the host during mosquito feeding.

(Although this doesn't explain how West Nile Virus gets transmitted, unless it's evolved some kind of relationship with an equivalent animal to the malarial parasite. HIV has up to now not evolved such a symbiosis.)

PS HIV and AIDS is endemic in Africa because the West (the "developed world") has exported sex tourism, and new-style liberal sexual attitudes, but also enough old-style religion that contraception is regarded as sinful (so condom use is rare, even where available, which is generally only in the bigger cities), prostitution is rife (which tends to happen when people are dirt poor, and have nothing else to sell but themselves) and the major pharmaceutical companies refuse to provide effective antivirals at prices that these nations can afford, or scream about patents and intellectual property rights when someone tries to produce generic versions. One of the major transmission routes for HIV in Africa is from mother to unborn child.

Sleep well.

Answer 5

between the main commonplace myths approximately HIV transmission is that mosquitoes or different bloodsucking bugs can infect you. there is no medical evidence to help this declare. to be sure why mosquitos do not help interior the transmission of HIV, we are able to look on the insect's biting habit. whilst a mosquito bites somebody, it would not inject its very own blood or the blood of an animal or guy or woman it has bitten into the subsequent guy or woman it bites. The mosquito does inject saliva, which acts as a lubricant so as that it could feed extra effectively. Yellow fever and malaria could be transmitted in the process the saliva, yet HIV would not reproduce in bugs, so the virus would not stay to tell the story interior the mosquito long sufficient to be transmitted interior the saliva. additionally, mosquitoes do not usually return and forth from one guy or woman to a distinctive after eating blood. The bugs want time to digest the blood meal till now shifting on.

Answer 6

No, because mosquitos don't put the blood they suck from other people into you, so any HIV infected blood stays in the mosquitos body (think the only diseases that they can transfer are parasitic ones that can move around on their own, not viruses which need a host to replicate itself).

Answer 7

Theoretically, yes for HIV. Mosquitos can carry any number of nasty diseases especially when they reside in a third world country. The mosquitos where I live can transmit West Nile Virus.

Answer 8

I don't know about sexual diseases in general....but as for HIV--I don't see why not. Although it's probably very unlikely...HIV is a bloodborne disease and mosquitos do leave a small trace of previously obtained blood in a new wound. That's how they spread other diseases such as malaria, west nile virus, and dengue fever.

Answer 9

Yes mosquito's can passed HIV OR SEXUAL DISEASES BECAUSE IT SUCK HUMAN BLOOD. For example if it just suck a HIV victims and if it suck your blood the virus travel through you blood stream. Remember that HIV and other sexual disease travel though blood.

Answer 10

if mosquitoes can pass hiv everyone already has it. HIV virus is very powerful, it can damage the ''womb'' of the mosquitoes, remember that male mosquitoes dont carry anything.when they suck the blood of a person with hiv, b4 they move the virus will die together with there ''baby''.