Can you catch aids from a mosquito that bit someone with aids?
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No they can't transmit it. You are not the first one asking the same question.
The fact is tha no-one have ever been infected by a mosquito; If that were the case the planet would be almost empty; think about it.
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids...
http://aids.about.com/od/technicalquesti...
http://www.museums.org.za/bio/viruses/ai...
You have feel more worried about your sex parters than about mosquitos. Even a healthy and athletic looking gorgeous girl or guy can have HIV.
I have a question for you: What are the chances of that happening?
hellz yea i got it from mesquito i thought i had malaria jus jokin but thanx for 2 points
No, the mosquito doesn't mix blood of people that it bites.
The current data suggests that there has to be a certain "viral load" in the contaminated sample to cause the victim to "catch" HIV. A mosquito isn't capable of carrying enough to infect a person.
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HIV as a virus lives by replicating itself in human cells. HIV infects people by entering the T helper cells and replicating it's genetic material, RNA, into DNA using a very complicated process called reverse transncription. Because mosqitos do not have the same genetic makeup that we do, mosquitoes do not become infecred with HIV. As far as anyone knows, HIV can only be contracted by blood or other body fluids containing the infected DNA. Although HIV is a very nasty virus, and highly contageous, it does not live long outside of the human body. It completely depends on cells to exist. Because it would not live in a mosquito's stomach, it can't be transmitted like a mini transfusion from person to person via mosquito. Even if the HIV virus could live inside the belly of a mosquito, the viral load or amount of cells infected with DNA wouldn't be prolific enough to infect someone.
Plus the CDC says it can't happen, so I'm sure they're probably right.
No.
Mosquitoes don't inject blood into you when they bite - they inject their own saliva.
Under some circumstances mosquito saliva may contain malaria parasites, or may contain a number of viruses such as dengue or yellow fever, but not HIV.
The diseases mosquitoes transmit are all bugs that have evolved to be carried in mosquito saliva.
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