Can the HIV (virus) be spread by mosquitos and fleas?

Question

Can the HIV (virus) be spread by mosquitos and fleas?
Any examples.

Evidence or theory?

Other virus spread by blood sucking insects or bugs?

Answer 1

only god knows

Answer 2

The HIV virus is not actually that robust and dies pretty quickly outside of the body that's why it requires very intimate contact to be passed on. It is very difficult to get it form saliva alone and the processes of digestion that would take place in an insect like a flea or a Mosquito before they pierced the skin of another person would render it ineffective. This is what the CDC (Centre for Disease Control) have to say:

The results of experiments and observations of insect biting behavior indicate that when an insect bites a person, it does not inject its own or a previously bitten person's or animal's blood into the next person bitten. Rather, it injects saliva, which acts as a lubricant so the insect can feed efficiently. Diseases such as yellow fever and malaria are transmitted through the saliva of specific species of mosquitoes. However, HIV lives for only a short time inside an insect and, unlike organisms that are transmitted via insect bites, HIV does not reproduce (and does not survive) in insects. Thus, even if the virus enters a mosquito or another insect, the insect does not become infected and cannot transmit HIV to the next human it bites.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

no. malaria is spread by mosquitos because the parasite which causes this terrible disease undergoes several morphologies to cope with the different environments it finds itself in. It resides in the blood stream, enters liver cells, enters blood cells, enters the mozzy digestive tract and migrates thru the gut to the mozzy salivary gland. It is not a virus.
Hiv is a virus, and when not inside a body cell cannot function. If a mosquito bit an HIV infectee, the digestive system would destroy it, and if it survived, it could not find its way to the salivary glands.
In humans, it resides in the body fluids when it is released from our defence cells - which is why we catch it from sex etc. It also explains why it kills us - our defence cells are destroyed when HIV hijacks them to reproduce. We then are prone to infections such as the common cold, pneumonia, cancers that we could normally fight off. With our defence cells gone, we are easily overcome with these opportunistic infections, and eventually die.

Answer 5

No

Malaria, West Nile Virus, and Triple E are spread by mosquitos

Answer 6

no it cannot. certain viruses (malaria, west nile,etc) can be spread by insects only becasue the viruse is able to live in the insect until the insect passes it on to something else, i.e., a person.
HIV is not able to survive outside of its host (a person) long enough to be transferred through insects or objects (toilet seat, hair brush); the virus dies off, and cant be passed on.

Answer 7

I'm told not -fleas and mosquitoes do not take sufficient blood for the virus to be carried and so cannot spread it.

Answer 8

Apparently not, it needs to be transfered in actual bodily fluid.

There are other viruses and infections which can be spread by mosquitos, malaria, heartworm etc, but HIV luckily works in a different way.

Answer 9

I would think it very unlikely as the HIV virus is spread by human contact; blood and saliva. Just my theory.

Answer 10

The mosquitos would need to bite someone who is HIV+ and ingest their blood, then bite someone and insert that blood. The chance of this happening is highly unlikely, but in theory, it is possible.

Answer 11

no cases of hiv infection from insects ever been reported, example of other viruses spread by insects are dengue fever&malaria,