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the same is transmitted by needle reused by infected person
so why can't the mosquito needle ?

2006-11-16 00:02:28 · 6 answers · asked by mun 1 in Health Diseases & Conditions Infectious Diseases

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There is no actual proof showing whether they do or don't transmit HIV.

The female mosquito requires blood to lay her eggs. If she is interrupted in the process of withdrawing blood, she may land on a different source co-mingling the two different blood sources in her own body. If she is interrupted, say swatted or squashed while she is still withdrawing blood, some of the blood she has already withdrawn that is inside her will likely will backwash into the current source. That is how disease is spread.

While we are told there are no known HIV transmissions in this manner, it is technically possible.

2006-11-16 00:24:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

An IV drug user will often pull his own blood up into the syringe to mix with the drug before pumping it back into his vein... Then the next user would add drug to the syringe which still had some blood from the last user in it and would inject that blood into his vein carrying the HIV virus....

Mosquitos consume the blood they suck out of you. They don't inject any of it into the next person....

The reason they can transmit other diseases like malaria and hepatitis is because those diseases are over 100 times more contagious than HIV...

2006-11-16 00:12:30 · answer #2 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 2 0

There have been no known cases of mosquito-transmitted HIV. We aren't really sure why, but one speculation is that mosquitos inject you with a blood-thinning toxin (the stuff that makes you itch) that is harmful to the HIV virus.

2006-11-16 00:12:05 · answer #3 · answered by Jamestheflame 4 · 0 1

i seen it on the discovery channel the mosquito has some way to filter out the virus

2006-11-16 02:56:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Because of the time factor. HIV blood has a short life span. Now, Hepatitis C......that is a different story.

2006-11-16 00:04:29 · answer #5 · answered by Trollhair 6 · 2 1

Mabye because they don't get it.

2006-11-16 00:04:13 · answer #6 · answered by god0fgod 5 · 1 2

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