If a mosquito sucks the blood of someone with AIDS, then a person without, will that person contract AIDS?

Answer 1

No.

The results of experiments and observations of insect biting behavior indicate that when an insect bites a person, it does not inject its own or a previously bitten person's or animal's blood into the next person bitten. Rather, it injects saliva, which acts as a lubricant so the insect can feed efficiently. 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.

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Answer 2

Not a chance. First off HIV is a very fragile and would be killed in the stomach of the mosquito. Even if it somehow lived through that and got into the blood of the mosquito you have to remember that HIV has a very specific binding mechanism that only binds to a certain kind of cell (CD4+ T cells) in the human body. It is like a lock and key mechanism and the key on the HIV does not fit into the locks on any other cells or species that don't have the exact same locks. So the virus would not be able to infect the mosquito.

Answer 3

This has caused much controversy in the science commuinity for many years. Many scientists claim no, but many have speculated that if one bites you after immediatly biting an infected individual, and you smash it ther blood can enter into your own bite, and have a small chance of infecting you. I would assume there are some scientists out their that know the truth to this, but would never make this information known to the general public, as if this were proven to be true, it would certainly cause widespread panic.

Answer 4

No, according to this page from the Rutgers University Entomology Department: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm and according to this report by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control): http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/transmission.htm

Answer 5

it has not been proven to happen but I would worry about any blood contact with an infected person

Answer 6

No you can't.I always wondered that.They have a saliva that kills the HIV virus.

Answer 7

Nope they sure won't, it's been widely researched.

Answer 8

Not at all