Can HIV be passed on by mosquitoes?

Answer 1

No, they can't.

Mosquito's aren't capable of transmitting the HIV virus. NOt because the HIV kills the mosquito, but because the Mosquito doesn't injecti ts victim with contaminated blood (or blood contaminated to a sufficuent degree).

Mosquito's suck blood and when they finish - inject saliva to coagulate the blood and prevent the wound from bleeding after they finish feeding. (to stop the animal bleeding to death believe it or not)

In either case, a mosquito cannot injest enough plasma contaminated with HIV to infect a second person after feeding.

Answer 2

No, in accordance to the centers for ailment administration. besides the actual shown reality that yellow fever, malaria might want to be transmitted, checks (supposedly) have shown that HIV can not reproduce in insects. So supposedly even with if HIV enters an insect it can not live on and the insect does no longer grow to be contaminated. So..at the same time as a mosquito bites you it can not infect you.

Answer 3

No. From the start of the HIV epidemic there has been concern about HIV transmission from biting and bloodsucking insects, such as mosquitoes. However, studies conducted by the CDC and elsewhere have shown no evidence of HIV transmission from mosquitoes or any other insects - even in areas where there are many cases of AIDS and large populations of mosquitoes. Lack of such outbreaks, despite intense efforts to detect them, supports the conclusion that HIV is not transmitted by insects.

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.

There also is no reason to fear that a mosquito or other insect could transmit HIV from one person to another through HIV-infected blood left on its mouth parts. Several reasons help explain why this is so. First, infected people do not have constantly high levels of HIV in their blood streams. Second, insect mouth parts retain only very small amounts of blood on their surfaces. Finally, scientists who study insects have determined that biting insects normally do not travel from one person to the next immediately after ingesting blood. Rather, they fly to a resting place to digest the blood meal.

Answer 4

"Chic " had the best article.
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No mosquitos cannot transfer the HIV virus from human to human.

Answer 5

little mosquito condoms, now thats funny

Answer 6

I asked an AIDS counselor that question, he said No. The virus can't live inside a mosquito so it can't be passed that way.

Answer 7

No.. It can not survive inside of the mosquito and thus is already dead before it enters a new hosts bloodstream..

Answer 8

i am a doctor and yes it can because if the mosquitoe sucked the blood of a infected person then yes you might get it! if you have a low imune system!

Answer 9

Here is the best article I could find on that.

http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm

Answer 10

Nope.