since some insects suck human blood for food like mosquito, if they suck blood from a person that has AIDS and then switch to a healthy person, it's still fluid transmission right?
2007-10-18 10:13:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous 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
2007-10-18 10:53:16 · answer #1 · answered by Alli 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that's why 75% of the world's population has AIDS.
2007-10-18 11:14:15 · answer #2 · answered by Clutch Cargo 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no, the insect is not able to carry the disease, its impossible. they only carry insect-prone infections like the nile virus.
2007-10-18 10:40:47 · answer #3 · answered by mari 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hiv is a virus and needs the body to grow, if it was a bacteria everyone in the world would have it,
2007-10-18 10:36:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. It is transmitted by bodily fluids (i.e. semen, blood, vaginal fluid), sharing needles, and breast milk.
2007-10-18 11:11:07 · answer #5 · answered by lovslinky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you can't, I learned you couldn't in Health class.
2007-10-18 10:17:03 · answer #6 · answered by Kelsey M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋