2006-09-24 14:39:49 · 7 answers · asked by Sheila E 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
No. Sexual intercourse, blood transfusion and sharing IV needles infected with HIV/AIDS virus etc can infect. Not by mosquito bites.
2006-09-24 14:41:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mosquitoes Digest the Virus that Causes AIDS
When a mosquito transmits a disease agent from one person to another, the infectious agent must remain alive inside the mosquito until transfer is completed. If the mosquito digests the parasite, the transmission cycle is terminated and the parasite cannot be passed on to the next host. Successful mosquito-borne parasites have a number of interesting ways to avoid being treated as food. Some are refractory to the digestive enzymes inside the mosquito's stomach; most bore their way out of the stomach as quickly as possible to avoid the powerful digestive enzymes that would quickly eliminate their existence. Malaria parasites survive inside mosquitoes for 9-12 days and actually go through a series of necessary life stages during that period. Encephalitis virus particles survive for 10-25 days inside a mosquito and replicate enormously during the incubation period. Studies with HIV clearly show that the virus responsible for the AIDS infection is regarded as food to the mosquito and is digested along with the blood meal. As a result, mosquitoes that ingest HIV-infected blood digest that blood within 1-2 days and completely destroy any virus particles that could potentially produce a new infection. Since the virus does not survive to reproduce and invade the salivary glands, the mechanism that most mosquito-borne parasites use to get from one host to the next is not possible with HIV.
check out this link....it will explain fully why the cannot....
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm
2006-09-24 21:41:53 · answer #2 · answered by ktjokt 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because HIV is a very fragile virus. It needs to stay at a very specific temperature and pH to live, and those conditions aren't met inside a mosquito. Also, Mosquitos fill up fast. It's not likely they'll feed on someone with HIV and then bite someone uninfected within the virus' window of viability- especially considering the ratio of infected to uninfected people. The odds are in your favor for coming out simply itchy, not infected.
2006-09-24 21:43:45 · answer #3 · answered by craftladyteresa 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
BRAVO!! ktjokt!!! 10 points
2006-09-24 22:03:36 · answer #4 · answered by blackdiamondsandroses 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because AIDS dont live in animals, incects, etc.
2006-09-24 21:41:33 · answer #5 · answered by ~!Cl@ss oF 2011 oN d3cK!~ 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
does not live in animals.
2006-09-26 12:05:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They can.
2006-09-24 21:42:18 · answer #7 · answered by ~~ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋