Explain why or why not.
2006-12-10 16:16:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
NO, the AIDS virus does not transmit that way. Various viruses have a molecular structure that makes then passable from species to human or human to human or air or water to animal or human.
The AIDS virus, which there are over 200 strains now, cannot be passed in the manner in which you speak because it's protein structure is not designed that way. It's physically impossible for it to do so.
Please, read source from the CDC link below as to why they cannot transmit AIDS to humans.
2006-12-10 16:22:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Head lice No, parasites, no, But Mosquito's I would not rule that out, because they transfer some of the blood from prior victims to you also
2006-12-10 16:24:47 · answer #2 · answered by back2skewl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Head lice munchkins are pretty much innert and won't do much, parasites are too small and they have to somehow enter your bloodstream, mosquitos can possibly have remnants of AIDS virus but usually not enough to infect a human, the dosage is too little.
2006-12-10 16:28:17 · answer #3 · answered by s_alexander_s 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
Aids can only infect another person if they are in direct contact with somebody who is carrying the disease. Mosquitos/lice/all insects alike do NOT carry HIV, as the virus is incapable of living in any insects, so therefore it cannot serve as a transporter.
It can only be spread by direct contact of a healthy human's blood with the blood of the infected human (direct! Very soon after infected blood hits the air, the virus dies) , as well as through breast milk, and body fluids (however there is no proof of it being transmitted through saliva alone)
2006-12-10 16:25:41 · answer #4 · answered by Lost In Vast 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Screw Matt Lauer, where've you been? I have a schedule and a list of things I have to see more than once a week. You're on it, along with ice sculptures that look like characters from Peanuts. Matt Lauer does have head lice. They all play Where on Matt Lauer's body is Matt Lauer's Head Lice. That means a strip search and an awkward exchange.
2016-05-23 04:13:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mosquitos bite just once per person. Not only that, AIDS is temperature sensitive and will fall apart within 15 minutes outside its normal environment which all those animals are "cold blooded."
Mosquitos and AIDS isn't the real problem. it's mosquitos and malaria which kills 1 million Africans per year.
2006-12-10 16:28:11 · answer #6 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. People are concerned that mosquitos might, but when they bite, they have two tubules; one that injects the blood thinner (the thing that makes you itch) and one that sucks up the blood. They don't re-inject blood. Plus, the virus can't live in its body.
As far as any blood that may be on the mosquito's body, the virus can't live longer than about 30 seconds when exposed to air.
2006-12-10 16:27:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no... they eat blood and it goes to their stomach and is digested... by the time a ectoparasite takes a new blood meal the aids virus would be digested... and there is a amount of viral dna that must be present for and infection to take hold in a human being for a aids virus to be succesful...
2006-12-10 16:20:04 · answer #8 · answered by curious dad 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
im pretty sure that at least mosquitoes can. becasue they tranfer blood and if the person before you had aids and when you touch aids in a open wound (where they sucked blood) it transfers!
2006-12-10 16:28:06 · answer #9 · answered by Chelsea 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you have heard cases of parasites being infected with AIDS, then maybe they do.
2006-12-10 16:27:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋