Does mosquitos spread HIV virus ?

Answer 1

No they do not.
HIV is transferred from human to human.

Answer 2

if you buy into the popular line, the answer is no. But then if true, explain how entire villages in africa have contracted aids. Don't let the idiots who make stupid comments about blacks in africa having sex with each other. They have just as strong, if not stronger family values as any other culture. So, my belief is yes, mosquitos can transfer hiv/aids. I'm not a scientist or a doctor, but I can read. I know that the hiv/aids virus can survive outside a host for a while (estimates vary on how long that actually is) but I also know that when a mosquito bites, it re gurgitates some of it's stomach contents into the next victim ( this is how several known diseases get transferred and spread in a population.) So, if we know the virus is alive for at least a little while inside the mosquito, and that it passes some of it's stomach contents into the victims, what other explanation is needed? Look at the spread of the west nile virus in the U.S. right now. It's being spread by mosquitos. Scary stuff huh?

Answer 3

The HIV virus is not actually that robust and dies pretty quickly outside of the body that's why it requires very intimate contact to be passed on. It is very difficult to get it form saliva alone and the processes of digestion that would take place in an insect like a flea or a Mosquito before they pierced the skin of another person would render it ineffective. This is what the CDC (Centre for Disease Control) have to say: 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.

Answer 4

Question

Can mosquitos spread HIV? They spread diseases such as malaria.


Answer

No. Malaria is caused by a certain type of parasite that not only survives but also reproduces in the mosquito. HIV is a virus, and, as we’ve mentioned in other questions and answers, HIV doesn’t do so well outside the human body. Once in the mosquito, the HIV would die very quickly. The mosquito never becomes HIV-infected, and nobody has ever become HIV-infected from a mosquito bite.

Answer 5

Mosquitoes do not spread HIV. hiv is a virus that can be found in the human blood, though I am not sure what happens when that virus gets into the mosquito's body, what I am sure of is that it is not an animal virus or insect virus. HIV is mostly spread through unprotected sex, blood and other bodily fluids. So please protect yourself.

Answer 6

HIV is transmitted only when the blood is directly transfused to the human. If HIV is spreaded by mosquitoes the 1/3 rd of the world population would have been dead

Answer 7

In responce to Randy Cs answer.

I am a scientist and a doctor and mosquitoes do not spread HIV.

I have also worked in Africa and can say that there is less education about HIV, less of a transient population, less protective sex and all these factors can contribute to whole villages dying from HIV.

Answer 8

NO, HIV requires some very specialized conditions, the inside of a mosquito isn't one of them.

Answer 9

No. Mosquitoes cannot serve as a reservoir for the AIDS virus.

Answer 10

LOL if that was true, in my lifetime, I would have been infected with aids a billion times over! So I can safely say that mosquito's do not carry aids virus.

Answer 11

No, they don't. They can pass on the West Nile Virus, and the bird flu (I believe), but not HIV.