2007-07-23 14:17:39 · 10 answers · asked by Maurice C 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
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
2007-07-24 08:36:28 · answer #1 · answered by Alli 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No cannot give you aids or HIV, even if they bite an infected person. .
There are several reasons for this, one is that the mosquito digests the aids virus, another is that while mosquitoes take blood from a person, they don't give it back. What a mosquito leaves in you is the mosquitoes saliva, that's what itches.
2007-07-23 21:32:29 · answer #2 · answered by Clare 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, you can not contract HIV/AIDS through a mosquito bite. here is a list of the body fluids that HIV/AIDS travels in:
1.blood
2.breastmilk
3.sexual fluids
4.mucosal fluid (fluid found in your knees)
Here are the ways it can be transfered:
1.blood to blood interaction
2.breast feeding
3.sexual intercourse
4.sharing contaminated needles
You cannot get it by hugging, kissing, touching, sharing cups and eating utencils, toliet seats, mosquito bites, sweat, urine, fecal matter, tears or saliva. If you contact the Red Cross they will be able to give you all the information that you would like on the virus. Remeber that education is key!
2007-07-23 23:00:55 · answer #3 · answered by Kassie M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a very common myth.
The answer is simply no. Biting insects cannot transmit HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
2007-07-24 00:29:40 · answer #4 · answered by Saria 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, otherwise we'd all have HIV. When mosquitoes bite you, they're injecting a protein into you, not blood. The protein does not carry the HIV virus on it.
2007-07-23 22:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is possible, but highly unlikely. Since you can get AIDS/HIV through blood transfusion or come in contact with blood containing AIDS/HIV, and mosquitoes use blood, it is possible. But I don't think the chance of that happening is high at all. Hope that helps.
2007-07-23 21:23:29 · answer #6 · answered by cdw 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
I would think so, if it ingested the blood of an HIV+ person and the bit you shortly afterwards. Blood is the key transmitter, but I'm no doctor or scientist.
2007-07-23 21:20:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
That is a big controversy even between doctors. My opinion: Mosquito's are not giving you blood but they are taking it from you....So I am not sure...I guess there is a possibility.?!?
2007-07-23 22:18:50 · answer #8 · answered by ♥BINK♥ 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Ah,...No it can not.
2007-07-27 21:02:16 · answer #9 · answered by weluvJesus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think so....
2007-07-27 09:25:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋