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Some freinds and i were BS'ing and thought "wouldnt suck to get AIDS from a masquito?

2007-05-06 18:48:18 · 2 answers · asked by vern 5 in Health Diseases & Conditions STDs

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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

2007-05-06 19:55:31 · answer #1 · answered by Alli 7 · 1 0

yes its passed through the blood and into the host

2007-05-07 10:00:57 · answer #2 · answered by amelia_0405 5 · 0 2

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