If a mosquito or insect bit an infected person with HIV. Would it pass it on if it flew and then bit you??

Answer 1

The answer is very simply and comprehensively no.

I'm an epidemiologist and my speciality was HIV/AIDS and STIs for more than 11 years. But experience teaches me that you often have to work very hard to convince people of scientific fact. So, here's what the Centers for Disease Control has to say on the subject:

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa32.htm

Answer 2

Definetely NO. The question here is not as simple as "blood sucking parasites" cross contaminating and speading infection between hosts, there is the greater (and more relevant) issue of the workings of the virus itself. HIV is an RNA virus and the mosquito is incapable of sustaining it thus it cannot pass it on.

The greater risk of Malaria should not be dismissed though, chemoprophlaxsis where indicated and general measures to avoid bites should always be underaken. The bottom line is to seek QUALIFIED medical advice if travelling to a region endemic with malaria.

Answer 3

Mosquitos are well known for being a vector of maleria and bubonic plaugue.

However, despite years of researching HIV in Africa, Mosquitos have never been identified as a vause of HIV infection.

I would say that it is very unlikely that you could catch HIV from a mosquito.

Answer 4

The honest answer is that no-one fairly knows of for advantageous. It hasn't been shown the two way and it fairly is available - on account that HIV can stay for a protracted time outdoors of its host. Mosquitos have carried many illnesses, inclusive of equine encephalitus, West Nile ailment, Malaria. So the superb element to do is to shelter your self with clothing and repellent.

Answer 5

No. HIV does not pass from human to animal. Once bitten the virus would not take, so there would be no effect. If it bites an HIV infected person, and then immediately bites you, the exposure to the oxygen would immediatley kill off infection prior to the bite.

Answer 6

I have lived in South Africa and was also worried about mosquito bites,they say that it can't happen as the aids virus can't live in the mosquitos gut.
Anyway that may or may not be true,can you imagine the panic it would cause if the authorities were to say it was possible.

Answer 7

Not sure. HIV virus cannot survive long outside the human body....but if it were in a mosquito's body?? Hmmm. Hope a real scientist can answer this question.....

Answer 8

no, HIV requires a very narrow and specific set of conditions to survive, the stomach of a mosquito is not capable of providing living conditions for HIV. They can transmit, west nile virus, and malaria and hepatitis, but not HIV.

Answer 9

A very good question.

You have a couple of comprehensive (and probably correct) answers above, but you wouldn't want to risk it would you?lol

Answer 10

yes