Can mosquitos carry the AIDS Virus?

Question

i was outside with a person who had AIDS and there were a lot of mosquitos. Is it possible that it can be given to me from the mosquitos after they bit the person with AIDS.

Answer 1

No. Researchers have found that mosquitoes digest the virus that causes AIDS, completely destroying any virus particles. In addition, HIV circulates at very low levels in the blood. An AIDS-free individual would have to be bitten by 10 million AIDS-infected mosquitoes in order to receive one unit of HIV.

Answer 2

Yes, but very unlikely.

While the HIV virus is fragile and must remain in specific conditions to survive, it is not impossible HIV to be spread by mosquitoes it is simply highly unlikely.

You'll find that most HIV/AIDS experts will claim that HIV can only come from sex or needles. While this is a nice story to keep the public from panicking and clamoring for mass quarantines of those infected, it is not the whole story.

Consider that the same experts claim that HIV jumped from a monkey or chimp to the first human to have it... do you honestly think that the first person infected got infected from either having sex with an infected monkey or shooting up with the monkey's needle? The fact is that it is possible to transmit the virus in ways beyond sex and needles, and however unlikely those methods are they are still a possibility.

If you study HIV/aids you'll also find that a small percentage of cases are from undetermined sources. This doesn't mean they couldn't tell which partner passed it, this is label is applied to people that have no risk factors such as sex/drug use/transfusions. It is completely possible that those unlucky few were bitten by those mosquitoes that had just bitten an HIV infected person and that all the stars lined up for the highly unlikely but possible transmission.

So... depending on who you ask and how honest they are willing to be, AIDS/HIV can be spread by mosquitoes but it is very unlikely that it will happen. In order for it to happen the mosquito that bit your friend would then have to quickly bite you... its possible though not probable. Of course if you don't hand out with people that have HIV in mosquito invested areas you wont have to worry about it.

Answer 3

No data to assist that probability exists. If HIV contaminated blood is taken with the aid of a mosquito the virus is digested (killed) interior the physique of the mosquito. If a mosquito takes a partial HIV contaminated blood meal from someone and then at the instant feeds on an ininfected person, there does not be sufficient HIV debris present day to transmit the ailment. in actuality, it is extremely no longer likely (a million in 10 million probability) there could additionally be a single unit of HIV present day. ultimately, for a mosquito to be waiting to hold AIDS, the ailment could desire to bypass from the intestine of the mosquito to the salivary glands the place it may later be injected into the subsequent host. it is very an prolonged and extensive technique in spite of illnesses that flourish in mosquitoes (like encephalitis).

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

no. mosquitos don't carry AIDs