2006-12-13 01:47:58 · 13 answers · asked by Lai Yu Zeng 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Good question. But it doesn't...
Because when a mosquito "bites" an HIV positive person, it sucks out blood which it then digests (which kills the virus). Even if it quickly moves on to another 'victim', it injects only saliva as a lubricant, it doesn't throw up it's last meal!
2006-12-13 01:55:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the virus thrives through the immune system. When the mosquito sucks the blood, it puts the blood in a place where the virus does not go into the mosquito's immune system. To make a long version short, because the mosquito lacks the disease, and does not inject blood into its target's system.
2006-12-13 01:51:10 · answer #2 · answered by davy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
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2006-12-13 01:51:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unlike humans, the mosquitos do bite and suck blood of two persons one after the other. In other words they bite only one person and fill themselves with their blood and thereafter they do not need any food and hence no bite. Secondly the mosquitos life cycle is such that they die before having the second fill.
2006-12-13 01:52:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mosquitoes can not spread the virus because it can not survive in the insects gut,so even after biting an infected person the virus will die before the insect bites another person.
2006-12-13 02:24:32 · answer #5 · answered by auhadejia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need more then a microscopic drop of blood to get hiv, plus the blood is dried and the virus is dead, doesnt live forever. plus the mosquito isnt inserting blood into you its taking blood sucking it. west nile thats different
2016-03-29 05:40:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mosquitos aren't good carriers. in other wrods the virus does not survive in mosquitoes long enough for thm to spread it.
2006-12-13 01:50:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the virus itself is very fragile and can't live in that enviorment(mosquitoes gut)
2006-12-13 01:50:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have always wondered this myself, that's why when I get bit my a mosquito I clean it with alcohol right away. I mean if they bite someone that has aids then bite you, why wouldn't it be spread.
2006-12-13 01:50:06 · answer #9 · answered by Backwoods Barbie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
most of animals are immune to the HIV B virus... even monkeys have it
its said that due to mass polio vaccination AIDS got spread in humans.... as monkey blood is part of that vaccine... and it wasnt checked for aids
2006-12-13 01:52:45 · answer #10 · answered by rocks_life 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋