At the risk of sounding stupid.?
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no
I won't paste the entire article here, but you can read it.
here:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm
Why Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit AIDS
by Wayne J. Crans, Associate Research Professor in Entomology
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet # FS736
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No.
I don't see why not. It is a blood-borne pathogen, but I haven't heard of any research. I don't think it sounds stupid, either.
No, not unless you have sex or share a needle with one.
no
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not possible
I am pretty sure the answer is no. But give it time, they will say that now they are a danger to you just like everything else. Don't eat broccoli, don't eat anything cooked in a pan with teflon coating. I think they are just trying to scare the crap out of everybody. Just relax, I heard skin so soft works well to keep them off. Not for me, they seem to love my legs, I get hundreds of bites every summer, No HIV yet!
dp
You got me curious, so I looked it up:
"No. From the start of the HIV epidemic there has been concern about HIV transmission from biting and bloodsucking insects, such as mosquitoes. However, studies conducted by the CDC and elsewhere have shown no evidence of HIV transmission from mosquitoes or any other insects - even in areas where there are many cases of AIDS and large populations of mosquitoes. Lack of such outbreaks, despite intense efforts to detect them, supports the conclusion that HIV is not transmitted by insects.
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."
Kind of interesting - thanks!
This is actually a very good question. Mosquitoes must clean their proboscis between meals, so if one person's blood was present, it would be removed before the next meal. A mosquito has to do this otherwise the blood would coagulate and the mosquito would not be able to feed.
The plasmodium parasite that causes malaria is carried in the mosquitoes saliva that cleans the needle-like proboscis, so that is how malaria is passed to other people.
Humans are lucky in this way. Think about how many would be dying if mosquitoes could transmit HIV.
Source(s):
cdc.gov, unaids.org
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