2006-10-03 01:17:45 · 5 answers · asked by Steamysteam 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Also prescription medicines such as anti depressants and blood pressure medicines?
2006-10-03 01:24:27 · update #1
The ARE parasites, since they live off us without giving anything in return, except maybe malaria and meningitis.
but they are also insects, and that means they have a largely different metabolism from ours. they are certainly not affected by alcohol, antidepressants or blood pressure medication, neither against high nor low bloodpressure ;)
however, it is absolutely possible that they pick up something from your blood that is bad for them, although i cannot name any example here.
certainly NOT AIDS, nor do they transfer it.
2006-10-03 01:36:51 · answer #1 · answered by wolschou 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything they eat they digest. It is different than when a human drinks alcohol, because they are not affected the same way. But if you could somehow get the alcohol into their system, it would probably affect them somehow. I don't know of any studies done on this with mosquitoes, but there have been some done on spiders. They fed the spiders different drugs, such as coccain, alcohol, and other stuff and it affected things such as how they built their webs. Pretty cool stuff.
2006-10-04 05:05:50 · answer #2 · answered by Kiko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The legal limit of blood alcohol content in many states is 0.1%. Death occurs usually at 0.4%. So it's not even 1% of the blood, not even a half of one percent, so it will not affect the mosquito or other parasite or get it drunk or anything.
2006-10-04 09:38:07 · answer #3 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're insects, not parasites.
And you can not get infected with aids or HIV through them.
2006-10-03 01:20:19 · answer #4 · answered by axel_jose187 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No only if it's infected with the AIDS virus
2006-10-03 01:18:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋