I have learned that HIV is in blood but why don't mosquitos transfer HIV. They suck blood don't they?
2007-01-22 12:48:34 · 5 answers · asked by hmmm.....good question 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
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.
2007-01-22 12:52:27 · answer #1 · answered by C. J. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A good question. Appareantly you can't get HIV from mosquitos, the reasons are explained here... http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa32.htm
In a nutshell... the mosquito (or other biting insect) doesn't trnasfer blood from one operson to another, it merely sucks blood out.
2007-01-22 12:58:45 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One or two folks have answered this - in that the virus will not exsist in the Mosqueto, so it will no tranfere to the larvae. Also the mosqueto will only take one drink of blood to hatch its eggs, so the mouth is not shared between humans like a needle could be.
2007-01-22 12:54:48 · answer #3 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HIV is not a very stable virus, it can't survive that long outside of the human body.
2007-01-22 12:51:31 · answer #4 · answered by Heather 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you could, AIDS would have already been cured. I think it has something to do with the size of the virus.
2007-01-22 12:52:04 · answer #5 · answered by DR_NC 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋