Can a mosquito spread aids? If yes,how & if not WHy?

Answer 1

Can Mosquitoes Spread Aids

Answer 2

No, at this time, there is no data which indicates that mosquitos can spread AIDS.

The following diseases can be spread by mosquitos: Eastern equine encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, La Crosse encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus, Western equine encephalitis, Dengue Fever, Malaria, Rift Valley Fever, and Yellow Fever. This list is not all-inclusive. There are some others, including some parasitic worms.

Each of the above diseases depends, in all or in part, on the mosquito to transmit the infectious agent to new hosts. The virus or micro-organism which causes each of these diseases has become adapted to living in the mosquito. That adaptation eventually included being present in the anti-clotting agent which the mosquito injects into the host to facilitate a full drink of the host's blood. The anti-clotting agent is stored in the salivary gland, which typically also hosts the infectious agent. It is also possible for the infectious agent to be in the proboscis as well, but it is unknown how the infectious agent could successfully transmit itself from the proboscis to the host.

Apparently, the AIDS virus originated from the Green Monkey in Africa. Unquestionably, these monkeys have been hosts for mosquitos for centuries, and it is very likely that the same moquitos would feed on humans iving in the same area too. Yet AIDS was an unknown disease in Africa before the early 1980's. This is a good indication that no mosquito-borne transmission of the AIDS virus was occuring.

However, it's possible for a mutant variety of AIDS to come about which would be able to exist in the salivary gland of a mosquito. That would be scary indeed.

Answer 3

I beg to differ with the zoology student. If the HIV virus can't live outside the human body, they wouldn't be able to do any research on it! Obviously, the HIV virus can live in test tubes in human blood. If it can live there, why not in the human blood inside the mosquito?

If the mosquito has HIV infected blood in it, and draws blood from another person, why couldn't the 2nd person get infected? Maybe it's not possible, I don't know. But, but the zoology student apparently doesn't know that mosquito's don't bite people, They have no teeth!

As for the people that say the blood is digested in the mosquito right away; then why when I slap one on my arm, right after it lands, do I sometimes get a big splatter of bright red blood? Obviously, that blood wasn't "digested". What mechanism in the mosquito, kills the HIV virus in the persons blood that is stored, before it is digested?

I think all of you are guessing and don't know what you are talking about!

By the way, the HIV virus can be caught many ways. The key is the blood or body fluids of an infected person coming into contact with the mucus membrane or non- intact skin ( skin with cuts, scrapes, burns, etc.) of a 2nd person. Mucus membrane is the tissue between the eye and eyelid, mouth, vagina, rectum, and colon.

The HIV virus does not die as soon as it leaves the body. It can live in saliva, urine, blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and feces, for quite some time after after they leave the body.

The ignorance about the HIV virus that I see in this forum is appaling. It's no wonder it keeps being spread and killing people!

Answer 4

mosquitoes do not spread AIDS, this is because aids is caused by a virus called human immuno virus which requires warm blood to survive. the virus is on the verge of living & non living and thus lacks any defence mechanism against environmental stress thus when it is contacted by the digestive juices of the mosquito it disintegrates and thus cannot be transmitted this is the same reason why we dont acquire aids even if we eat with an infected person we acquire aids only when the virus gains entry into our blood through any way.

Answer 5

There are diseases that mosquitos transmit, but TB, AIDS, and Herpes are not among them.

First, a mosquito does not infect the "next" person she bites. When the mosquito "bites" she injects a certain saliva under the skin to prevent clotting the blood. If the blood clotted, it would clog her feeding tube. After taking her blood meal, her feeding tube is wiped clean of blood and she rests for a few hours to digest it, thereby allowing germs on the tube to die.

Malaria, dengue fever, and west nile are carried because they actually develop inside the mosquito. The parasite Plasmodium (for malaria) has a host inside the human, and another host inside the mosquito. (I can send you the whole biology chapter if you want it.) The parasite develops inside the mosquito and is then sent to the salivary glands, where it is passed on to the next human in that saliva -- about 8 hours after biting the first malaria-infected human. This is not actually by using germs in the feeding tube, but by using the parasitic life cycle.

At this time, AIDS has not developed into a disease that can use mosquitos as hosts. It can be sexually transmitted, because there are virus cells in the reproductive fluids and there are always small abrasions made during a sexual act which allows these virus cells to pass into the blood stream. It can be transmitted by blood transfusion, or by using an injection needle more than one as is common among stoned drug users.

However, AIDS does not (yet) have the ability in its life cycle to develop inside a mosquito and migrate to the salivary glands so as to infect the next person. It is unlikely that it will, because it is a virus and not a living parasite; also it is a mammalian disease and would have no effect on insect cells. If AIDS were passed by mosquitos, using the number of malaria infections every year and the impossiblity of buy medication for either disease, everyone in Africa would have been dead for almost a century as the disease passed.

I hope that this answers your question and the worry about the possible diseases passed by the mosquitos. If you want more information just contact me!

Answer 6

No. Malaria is caused by a certain type of parasite that not only survives but also reproduces in the mosquito. HIV is a virus, HIV doesn’t do so well outside the human body. Once in the mosquito, the HIV would die very quickly. The mosquito never becomes HIV-infected, and nobody has ever become HIV-infected from a mosquito bite.

Answer 7

AIDS - Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndorme- is spread through the infected blood introduced into a healthy person/ by unsafe and unnatural sexual practices. so far there is no proof that the mosquito bite will cause AIDS. This is simply because the mosquito will only suck out the blood from the body of human and the secretions it inject at the time of sucking the blood will clean its suction organs so that there will not be any virus in the suction organs.

Answer 8

No. Mosquitos don't inject the blood they've taken from other people back into your body. Now, if H.I.V. could infect mosquitos, then it would be possible (since they DO inject their saliva into you) however, HIV is to delicate to survive contact with the mosqitos saliva. There are OTHER bugs you can catch from mosquitos though. But that is an answer for another day.

Answer 9

Chances are remote.A female mosquito sucks the blood of an HIV infected person and then quickly sits over the wound of another person and if the mosquito is smashed on the wound and if the blood from the stomach of the mosquito spreads on the wound and then taken up by the recipient, then the infected lymphocytes might find entry.

Answer 10

mosquitos cannot spread aids. I think it is because they cannot carry enough of the germ that causes aids.