Is there a possibility that mosquitoes can transmit the HIV/AIDS virus?

Question

If it can be transmitted through sexual contact, and from sharing needles can it be transmitted if a mosquito sucks the blood of an infected person and then goes and sucks the blood of a non infected person. Its not like the mosquito cleans its little sucker after every drink.

I don't think this is a stupid question. I'm just wondering what y'all think.

Answer 1

Hi there, that is NOT a dumb question and millions of dollars have been spent on this question.
The answer is no, they can NOT spread HIV from visiting a person with the illness and then biting you after them. And here is why.
Yes, you do have a blood to blood transfer, which is necessary for the virus to be spread from one body to the next body and yes, the virus is alive in the misquitoes. However, they can not carry enough of the virus in them to catch it themselves, so for that same reason, they can not transfer it to another person. Even if you were bitten by a hundred misquitoes, all of which had just bitten an HIV person, combined, they would not have enough of the disease in the blood they take from a person to transmit the virus from them to you. So, no worries, you can not catch it that way.
If you don't believe me, here is a link to the CDC (center for disease control): http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa32.htm

Answer 2

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Answer 3

When mosquitoes bite a person, they do not inject the blood of a previous victim into the person they bite next. Mosquitoes do, however, inject saliva into their victims, which may carry diseases such as dengue fever, malaria, yellow fever or the West Nile virus, thus infecting the person being bitten. However, HIV is not transmitted this way (Webb et al., 1989). On the other hand, a mosquito may have HIV-infected blood in its gut, and if swatted on the skin of a human who then scratches it, transmission may in principle occur (Siemens, 1987). This risk is very small, and no cases have yet been identified through this route.

Answer 4

Mosquitoes cannot transmit aids. Rutgers entomology professor Wayne Crans has published a cooperative extension fact sheet on this called "Why Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit AIDS." This is available on the web at the link pasted below.

The primary reasons cited in the article are:
1. Mosquitoes Digest the Virus that Causes AIDS
2. Mosquitoes Do Not Ingest Enough HIV Particles to Transmit AIDS by Contamination
3. Mosquitoes Are Not Flying Hypodermic Needles (i.e., a mosquito that disgorges saliva into your body is not flushing out the remnants of its last blood meal)

Answer 5

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 6

Can Mosquitoes Transmit Stds

Answer 7

its a myth

Answer 8

I REALLY DON'T KNOW> BUT QUITE INTERESTED i WONDER IF IT CARRY'S HERPES