If insects, such as blood feeding bed bugs and mosquitoes, are either immune to HIV and other human transmittable diseases, and/or do not seem to spread these diseases. Could it be possible that the saliva from these type of insects could be an antidote, or vaccine, for HIV and other blood related diseases?
2007-02-16 16:31:57 · 12 answers · asked by M B 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Scientists are not working on this for one reason. We know things. For example HIV infects CD4+ T cells using CCr5 OR CXCR4 as co-receptors. Insects do not have these, hence they don't get infected. Let me just be clear. There is no possible way that insects such as mosquito's hold the cure for HIV or other HUMAN infections.
2007-02-16 20:42:54 · answer #1 · answered by Bacteria Boy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, given how long it takes humans to show symptoms of AIDS, they'd be rather elderly mosquitos by the time they went in to get treatment. While some insect-borne diseases also affect the insect in question--I think malaria is tough on the mosquito--viruses only like particular sorts of cells, and these don't show up in mosquitos. They don't have to be immune to much of anything, having lifespans of only a few months.
That's one of the reasons that insects are such successful creatures: they worry only about the survival of the species, not in fulfilling their personal goals as individuals.
Insofar as anyone can tell, and I don't understand why this is a big issue for the far-right-wing conspiracy theorists, the HIV virus is spread only between humans, not by any intermediate host except perhaps blood banks and IV needles.
2007-02-17 00:47:27 · answer #2 · answered by 2n2222 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is actually possible that the bugs could spread the infected blood to anothers blood, but really, what are the chances of a mosquito ejecting it's newly retrieved blood (with aids, mind you) into another person. And with such low quantity infect them. The scenario is extremely unlikely. The bugs, like other animals do not get aids, but that does not mean they are immune to HIV. They simply do not have the components like humans to host the virus. HIV is "Human" Immunodeficiency virus.
2007-02-17 00:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by Jasmine M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HIV is specific to humans. Like someone else said, you need to have the CD4 receptor for HIV to survive in you. Some people born without this receptor are immune. That's what scientists are looking into right now.
Insects do spread disease very well, even though they may not get ill from it. Like someone else said, Malaria is a big problem cause by mosquitoes transmitting it.
Yes, cats can get aids, but it is caused not by HIV but FIV (Feline immunodeficiency virus).
2007-02-17 01:59:14 · answer #4 · answered by retzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interesting hypothesis ,
bugs themselves have totaly diferent systems and aids is meaning less to them as for passing it on your idea seems pretty good ,but one should imagine that the scientists have thought about that already
apart from that antidotes for aids have existed a long time and are reserved for the ruling elite
there are rumors that aids medicens are killing the people .lots of stuff on the net right now ,and other rumors state that the governments are messingwith the PH of the drinking water ,which makers people sterile and mess with sexual devellopment of fetuses
in 1998 Kissinger said at a closed bilderberg meeting that their Agenda demanded a 70% drop in the world polpulation,He is Illuminati
those who rule the world dont want a lot more people they want to cut down to have more control over the ones that are left and to have more natural resources to go around
Various peole have confirmed these concepts including Prince Philip and this is all i will say ,i have been banned before for talking like this
2007-02-17 00:46:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are a smart cracker, M B, I'd like to talk to you more, unfortuantely I am unavailable for email chat.
I've thought the same thing.
I bet scientists have too and they are working on it. I mean they have to have antibodies that keep them from catching HIV just like we do for the bird flu. Right?! Every once in awhile disease crosses species so there had to be gene evidence out there.
Did you know they made sheep with a spider silk gene that can produce silk in their milk and be spun into a web with a machine??
2007-02-17 00:36:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
actually, cats can have aids. So aids is not just limited to humans. Now you can't get aids from a cat, and vise versa. They deal with it a lot differently than we do. My cats has aids and he's one of the happiest cats I've seen. I just don't let him out so the other neighborhood cats don't get aids. As for dogs, there doesn't seem to be much info on them and aids. So a mosquito can't get aids from a human, just like we can't get aids from a cat.
2007-02-17 01:29:29 · answer #7 · answered by Tier D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard about a guy that was using cows to cure people of AIDS. He would inject blood from a person with AIDS into a cow and then have the person drink the milk from that cow and they would be cured. I heard the FDA found out about it though and shut him down. Crap like that happens because of the greed of pharmaceutical companies.
2007-02-17 00:38:38 · answer #8 · answered by Docta Jones 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The female mozzies give us malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, West Nile virus; they don't really mean to, but they do. Do you really think that so many people died from these so that you
could wonder if they are trying to help us be more human?
Harmless? I would see a doctor, myself!
2007-02-17 00:51:18 · answer #9 · answered by WomanWhoReads 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
virus are specific to their hosts and therefore the HIV can only affect the human t4 lyphocyte as they have cd4 receptors.
2007-02-17 00:37:03 · answer #10 · answered by cookiecracker 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋