Do you beleive this theory ? Mosquitos cannot transmit HIV virus .?

Question

How comes that if you use a needle to pinch an HIV positive patient, and you then use that same needle in an healthy person, he will be infected with the HIV virus . But if you put ten people ( five HIV positive , five healthy ) in a dark closed room full of hungry mosquitos for 48 hours , the other five uninfected will still be after the 48 hours ( This' what scientists say ) . I personally don't beleive it . I think scientists are just hidden the truth to prevent confusion. what do you think ?

Answer 1

Mosquitoes can transmit the Nile virus but not HIV? Yeah right and my Mom's a virgin, just ask my other two brothers and sister and they will tell you the same.

Answer 2

If there were a risk of HIV infection from mosquito bites scientists would have found a way to prove it.
In the case of Lyme disease carried by ticks, if a tick gets blood from a western fence lizard, the blood will inoculate the tick. Maybe mosquito's found a way to inoculate HIV. Don't be so skeptical.
An enormous amount of scientific time is put to this problem. The risk would be much more significant in regions of Africa where 30% are infected with HIV.

Answer 3

"Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a human retrovirus that infects lymphocytes and other cells bearing the CD4 surface marker. The virus is transmitted primarily by sexual and parental routes. There are two ways blood feeding arthropods can spread disease, mechanically, by simple transfer of virus between hosts by contaminated mouth parts, or, biologically, which would require virus replication in arthropod tissues (especially salivary glands). There are some important factors which have proven that AIDS is not transmitted by mosquito bite. These factors are: (1) AIDS virus can not replicate inside the mosquito, bed bug, flea, or other blood sucking insect and the lack of replication of HIV in arthropod cells due to lack of T4 antigen on cell surface, and (2) it is unlikely that HIV is transmitted by insects, given the low infectivity of HIV and the short survival of the virus in the mosquito. HIV appears to be much less easily transmitted probably due to lower titers of virus in body fluids. So, on the basis of experimental evidence and probability estimates, it has been concluded that the likelihood of mechanical or biological transmission of HIV by insects is virtually nonexistent."

Answer 4

They say this because HIV has yet to have any confirmed cases from mosquitoes. It seems that mosquitoes are unable to host the current strains of the virus, though that may change in the future. They can only transmit viruses that can withstand the enzymes and anticoagulants that mosquitoes have.

Answer 5

The female Anopheles Mosquito cannot "sustain" the HIV virus in her body long enough to "pass it to another human."

Unlike encephalitis viruses and other mosquito-transmitted (viral) diseases, the HIV virus that causes AIDS is supposedly not able to survive inside the body of the mosquito. However, the American cockroach and ticks in Africa have already been implicated in the spread of HIV.

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Answer 6

They can not trasmit hiv, when they sting you they do not inject onother persons blood they only inject silava. And the blood on the outside of the needle is simply too lotle to cause transmission. Trust me I live in africa I get stung by mosquitos all the time in all sorts of places, I would have been long gone.

Answer 7

There isn't enough of the HIV virus on the mosquito's stinger to transmit the virus and allow it to replicate in another human being.

Answer 8

Check other questions to understand the physiology of mosquitoes. Other people asked the question and others answered it. There is no evidence that it is spread in the fashion you sugest because the virus does not spread the salivary glands of the mosquites.

Answer 9

I thought that you CAN catch it from a mozzie but my theory maybe it has to do with the anatomy of it. Mozzies probably have saliva to ward of bacteria and viruses to prevent them getting sick.

Answer 10

Yes I believe this theory whole heartedly. After a mosquito bites you it dies.