can't they transmit it to us,humans?
2006-10-30 21:36:02 · 10 answers · asked by the_lil_boi 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
I see we have a lot of people here that should go back to the text book and do some studying. If they're going to give answer they should know what they're talking about, seriously.
In the first place, the aids virus is most probably to large for the mosquito to transfer it to humans (Clark mosquito etc) we'd better hope they're right, we don't need another transmitter going public. But the truth is, it is too large for the mosquito to transmit.
2006-10-30 22:13:06 · answer #1 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No evidence to support that likelihood exists. If HIV infected blood is taken by a mosquito the virus is digested (killed) inside the body of the mosquito. If a mosquito takes a partial HIV infected blood meal from a person and then immediately feeds on an ininfected person, there would not be enough HIV particles present to transmit the disease. In fact, it is highly unlikely (1 in 10 million chance) there would even be a single unit of HIV present. Finally, for a mosquito to be able to carry AIDS, the disease would need to pass from the gut of the mosquito to the salivary glands where it would later be injected into the next host. This is quite a long and extensive process even with diseases that flourish in mosquitoes (like encephalitis).
2006-10-31 05:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mosquitoes cannot transmit aids since they suck blood only in minute amounts and the concentration of HIV virus is not sufficient to infect another person even if it bitten immediately. Before sucking blood, mosquitoes release an anti-clotting factor which is inhibitory for the AIDS virus. Even if the virus enters the mosquito, it does not enter us because the environment in the mosquito is so unfavourable that the virus dies before infecting us.
2006-10-31 07:03:55 · answer #3 · answered by drhanish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They may be carrying the virus but, do not transmit to humans. When mosquitoes bite, they suck the blood and do not inject it. You feel the pain of the bite because they inject their saliva first in order to be able to suck the blood.
2006-10-31 06:11:21 · answer #4 · answered by Geeta M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do. If they suck blood from an infected person, then that blood will have the HIV virus. Perhaps it does not survive in the mosquitoe long enough to be transmitted.
2006-10-31 05:41:45 · answer #5 · answered by Labsci 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The virus becomes ineffective, once they are removed from out of the human system. Hence, mosquito bite does not transmit HIV.
2006-10-31 06:02:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Scientists still do not have a proven explanation for this phenomenon. They are researching it for possible cures or vaccinations for HIV.
2006-10-31 06:06:25 · answer #7 · answered by arbolito 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because AIDS virus simply doesn't exists, or/and because AIDS is not an infectious disease caused by a virus.
What The Perth Group has argued:
-Failure to prove the existence of a unique, exogenously acquired retrovirus, HIV.
-Failure to verify the HIV antibody tests proof of HIV infection.
-Failure to prove HIV causes immune deficiency (destruction of T4 lymphocytes) or AIDS.
-The impossibility of haemophiliacs acquiring HIV following factor VIII infusions.
-Failure to prove the HIV genome, (RNA or DNA) originates in a unique exogenously acquired infectious retroviral particle.
-Failure to prove HIV/AIDS is infectious, either by blood, blood products or sexual intercourse.
-Failure to prove what is called AIDS in Africa or Thailand is caused by HIV or is sexually transmitted.
-That AIDS and all the phenomena inferred as "HIV" are induced by changes in cellular redox brought about by the oxidative nature of substances and exposures common to all the AIDS risk groups and to the cells used in the "culture" and "isolation" of HIV.
-That AIDS will not spread outside the original risk groups and that cessation of exposure to oxidants and/or use of anti-oxidants will improve the outcome of AIDS patients.
-----That pharmacological data prove AZT cannot kill HIV and AZT is toxic to all cells and may cause AIDS----.
For more detailed informations, visit: http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/cjinterviewep.htm
http://www.duesberg.com/
2006-10-31 08:24:48 · answer #8 · answered by CORE 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They donot because they could be affected by HIV
2006-10-31 05:44:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they are not drug addicts,they dont use needles and they are not mosquitosexual.
2006-10-31 05:46:16 · answer #10 · answered by Irena N 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋