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2007-05-02 17:42:51 · 3 answers · asked by mansoor 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
Do you mean, can mosquitoes spread HIV/AIDS?
If so, then the answer is 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.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/transmission.htm
2007-05-03 04:07:35 · answer #1 · answered by Alli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean can the mosquito spread HIV, no it cannot. Aids is the worst case scenario caused by HIV. HIV can only last 30 seconds or so outside the host/body.
2007-05-03 00:51:03 · answer #2 · answered by brown 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is believed that HIV can't be spread by mosquitos, nor by headlice.
2007-05-03 22:31:56 · answer #3 · answered by Mark B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋