If suppose a mosquito which bites a person affected by AIDS, it sucks his blood which contains AIDS virus , when it bites other person, the virus has to get induced?? Why does this not happen?
2007-05-04 07:00:41 · 8 answers · asked by Sairam 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
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
2007-05-04 07:09:39 · answer #1 · answered by Alli 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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2016-08-29 09:09:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, and I study all I can, regarding HIV and AIDS, that until the doctors can really pinpoint all the ways that this disease can be alleviated from our world, the doctors are not THAT sure of anything about HIV and AIDS.........except that it IS transferred through blood to blood contact and through other bodily fluids. That makes for only two ways that this can be 'caught'. I believe that health professionals will have to know more about this disease, before they start telling me that I cannot get it from a mosquito. I believe that such a transfer would make sense. As to whether or not this has happened, yet.............who really knows? Are there more new cases of HIV/AIDS in hot, wet areas..................such as mosquitos seem to love to inhabit? I don't know. There must be a study on this. Still, I believe that the govt. would keep a lid on it IF they knew that mosquitos could transfer the virus.........because it would really affect so many things! (travel, gas usage, tourism, to name a few!).
2007-05-04 07:34:54 · answer #3 · answered by laurel g 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well some stds can be transmitted by a mosquito bite. However; the hiv virus cannot. Although hiv is a potentially deadly disease its a wimp when it comes to viruses. it has to have a saline enviroment to survive so to speak and must be warm as well. and it dont get along with oxygen. u could drink after a person that has aids and not have to worry. but mosquitos are a cold blooded creature even if they was to bite a person infected with aids the virus is dead in less than 15 seconds. thisnt make believe its factual. the hiv virus has to be in a warm saline environment.
2007-05-04 13:43:41 · answer #4 · answered by gnr_tj 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
To my knowledge, it is _theoretically_ possible for the HIV virus to be transmitted by mosquito - it has just never happened. There exists the possibility that the environment within the mosquito is too unstable for the HIV virus to survive for a long period of time. Remember, the HIV virus is not terribly strong outside of the human body in general. Hope this helps!
2007-05-04 07:06:26 · answer #5 · answered by DrM 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Simply because the AIDS Virus cannot survive outside the human Body for a longer period of time. It can hardly survive for a few seconds.
2007-05-04 20:16:35 · answer #6 · answered by hbandiwdekar 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
cause its such a small amount of blood i think you need about 4 drops or so i heard, besides that the blood prob get cold in the small body of a bug the hiv dies in the air or so i hear or under a certain temp.
2007-05-04 08:34:59 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
oh i dont know about that but i heard that hiv doesnt cause aids so all these donation companies donating to africa is a huge fraud, theres a google video on it. check it out. so far gay people that are on drugs get aids, and some how it can be transmitted through sexually to females if they have sexual contact.
2007-05-04 07:05:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋