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Question

i have read somewhere that AIDS can be transmitted through mosquito bite also ! is it possible ?? i am doing a project on this i need your help !

Answer 1

You mean HIV - the virus that causes AIDS.. here is the answer you are looking for and the answer is no and here is the explantion of why from the Dept of Health & Human Services Center of Disease Control & Prevention website. :o)

No. From the start of the HIV epidemic there has been concern about HIV transmission from biting and bloodsucking insects, such as mosquitoes. However, studies conducted by the CDC and elsewhere have shown no evidence of HIV transmission from mosquitoes or any other insects - even in areas where there are many cases of AIDS and large populations of mosquitoes. Lack of such outbreaks, despite intense efforts to detect them, supports the conclusion that HIV is not transmitted by insects.

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.

There also is no reason to fear that a mosquito or other insect could transmit HIV from one person to another through HIV-infected blood left on its mouth parts. Several reasons help explain why this is so. First, infected people do not have constantly high levels of HIV in their blood streams. Second, insect mouth parts retain only very small amounts of blood on their surfaces. Finally, scientists who study insects have determined that biting insects normally do not travel from one person to the next immediately after ingesting blood. Rather, they fly to a resting place to digest the blood meal.

Answer 2

One of the most prevalent myths about HIV transmission is that mosquitoes or other bloodsucking insects can infect you. There is no scientific evidence to support this claim.
When a mosquito bites someone, it does not inject its own blood or the blood of an animal or person it has bitten into the next person it bites. The mosquito does inject saliva, which acts as a lubricant so that it can feed more effectively. Yellow fever and malaria can be transmitted through the saliva, but HIV does not reproduce in insects, so the virus doesn't survive in the mosquito long enough to be transmitted in the saliva.

Additionally, mosquitoes don't normally travel from one person to another after ingesting blood. The insects need time to digest the blood meal before moving on.

Answer 3

Some people have feared that mosquitoes or other biting insects might transmit HIV. Considerable scientific research has shown that HIV/AIDS is not transmitted through casual contact unless blood from one person passes into the body of the other.

Likewise, hugging, shaking hands with, or even sharing eating utensils with a person infected with HIV is not a risk for HIV infection, nor can biting insects transmit the virus.

Finally, HIV is not and never has been transmitted by donating blood. Prior to the treatment of the blood supply, it was possible to become infected through receiving a blood transfusion, but controls on blood banks in the U.S. have all but eliminated this risk.

While HIV/AIDS is a significant health risk, it is possible to protect yourself from becoming infected. Proper use of latex condoms during oral, anal, or vaginal sex, is the most effective way to avoid possible infection for those who are sexually active.

Answer 4

No, no and no. This used to be a popular myth in the media, but its not true for several reasons. First of all, the digestive enzymes in the mosquito destroy the virus. AIDS is a fairly delicate virus and can only survive for several hours outside the host and in dried blood. Chemicals like chlorine destroy it on contact. Mosquitoes are not able to ingest enough of the virus to successfully transmit it to a new host, and they do not regurgitate their food (blood) into a new host. The tube that secretes the anticoagulant is totally separate from the tube into their stomach, as the anticoagulant is in their saliva, and this is not produced by their stomach. Don't believe everything you read.

Answer 5

no, it cannot be transmitted by mosquitoes.

Studies conducted by many researchers have shown no evidence of HIV transmission through insects, even in areas where there are many cases of AIDS and large populations of insects such as mosquitoes. Lack of such outbreaks, despite considerable efforts to detect them, supports the conclusion that HIV is not transmitted by insects.

Also, HIV only lives for a short time and does not reproduce in an insect. So, even if the virus enters a mosquito or another sucking or biting insect, the insect does not become infected and therefore cannot transmit HIV to the next human it feeds on or bites.

Answer 6

It cannot be transmitted thru mosquito bites but if it has bitten a person who is infected and then bites a person with an open wound on the wound (if the wound is not covered) then there are chances the person will be infected.

Answer 7

Hello, Its 100% wrong. Because when i was in my college, some professors gave a lecture during AIDS awareness programme.At that time few questions were asked by the audience(students). So i remember this same question was asked & the answer was no. Because this does not spread through mosquitoes. For more details go & ask in some hospital staffs whom you are aware of. They may help you to get more information through some one who is aware of or working to eradicate it.

Answer 8

there hasnt been much talk about that (yes,because the blood stays active in the mos. body), the ones that say no in order to have people not panic about something that they cant do anything about, are the same people that used to say it couldnt be spread by saliva (now, if you have aids and spit on somebody, you can be charged with attempted murder), but listen those arent the oddest things that arent talked about much - the wildest is the FACT that people who have ancestors that got infected with the black plague and survived (not all, that got it, died) had their d.n.a. mutated in a way that got passed down to the following generations an immunity to aids (they found this out after tracing d.n.a. and r.n.a. of african prostitutes that had much sex with aids victims but never contracted the hiv or aids virus). the percentage of people that are alive today that had ancestors that got the black plague and survived is 10%. In other words 10 percent of the worlds population is immune to aids (try to hear that in mainstream media)(FACT)

Answer 9

no,mosquito bite cannot spread aids,its sure as from some reports printed in The Tribune newspaper.

Answer 10

Hi,
Avoid sexual contact with HIV infected individuals or use a condom during sex.

Ensure the barber doesn't reuse blades.

Intravenous drug users shouldn't share needles.

HIV infected individuals should not donate blood, semen, or body
parts.

Breast feeding should be avoided because the virus can be
transmitted to the infant.

Enjoy Life

Dr.Mojo