OK I HAD I QUESTION OK LETS SAY SOMEONE HAS AIDS AND A MOSQUITO SUCKS BLOOD FROM THAT INDIVIDUAL RIGHT AND THEN THE MOSQUITO GOES TO SOMEONE ELSE WHO IS PERFECTLY FINE CAN SOME ONE GET AIDS FROM A MOSQUITO OR WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MOSQUITO DOES IT DIE B4 IT CAN SUCK SOMEONE ELSES BLOOD OR WHAT ?> WHERE DID AIDS REALLY COME FROM?
2007-03-14 04:19:18 · 7 answers · asked by Magz 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
The answer is no.
Several reasons why. The reason is that because the HIV virus is considered 'food' to the mosquito, and therefore it is digested and no harm done. Secondly, the mosquito has two ...tubes. One which is for food and the other is for salivary gland. They take up the food (blood) but they insert the saliva portion...two different things so transmission is impossible. Finally, mosquitoes just can't ingest enough to transmit the virus.
This is unlike the parasites for malaria or encephalitis; those organisms 'trick' the mosquito into thinking it is NOT food and then goes through a metamorphasis and then it is transmitted.
Where did AIDS come from? The first known case was from a man in the Congo area, how he got it is unknown and that was way back in 1959!! The poster that stated this is from sex with monkeys is getting that from a book and that was the accepted theory until 1999. In that year researchers found that a subspecies of a chimp in West Africa is the original source of the HIV-1. It was introduced when hunters were exposed to the infected blood.
2007-03-14 04:43:20 · answer #1 · answered by Michelle_My_Belle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The HIV virus is not transmitted by mosquito. The virus is very temperature sensitive, so when it is out of the body for even a short period of time, it begins to decay. Also, the virus is easily digested in a mosquito. Remember, once a mosquito has gotten its fill, it will not then immediately go and bite someone else.
Malaria is a parasitic disease spread by a much larger bug, which is alive. These larger particles actually plug the proboscis (the beak of the insect) so he can't get a drink. The frustrated mosquito then goes and immediately bites someone else, first trying to spit out the plug, thus injecting the new host.
Hope this explains things.
2007-03-14 11:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by CaliDoc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
aids came from african monkeys, it is like a proven fact, so some sick fellow out there, screwed a monkey, and gave it to some one, and voila, it spread like wild fire.
i have thought about the mosquito thing. and leeches. and ticks. i honestly dont know. i would say google it.
2007-03-14 11:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by smcopeland16 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You can't get AIDS that way.
You need much more blood or bodily fluid to contract AIDS than that.
2007-03-14 11:21:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can get AIDS
2007-03-14 11:22:14 · answer #5 · answered by Dr Universe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question,never thought of that before
2007-03-14 11:22:44 · answer #6 · answered by Jo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please see the previous questions and answers on the subject in this website itself.
2007-03-14 11:26:59 · answer #7 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋