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No. When a mosquito feeds on HIV (human immunodeficiency virus - the virus that causes AIDS) infected blood, the virus is treated as food and digested with the blood. If a mosquito takes blood from a person infected with HIV and then bites a non-infected person, the particles are insufficient to cause a new infection. The levels of HIV that are in human blood are very low compared with the viral diseases that are transmissible by insects.
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No. We have a hugh amount of experimental and epidemiological data that this doesn't happen. If AIDS were transmitted by mosquitos, people outside the high-risk groups would be getting infected in areas with mosquitos. Retirees in Key West, for example, would be geting infected if the disease were transmitted in this way.
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No. There are several "theories" about why this is true, #1), mosquitoes rest after biting, and the HIV virus can't survive outside of the human body long enough to survive a mosquitoe's resting period and 2) mosquito borne diseases (such as malaria) live in the mosquito's saliva -- which is what our body is exposed to when a mosquito bites, HIV cannot survive in mosquito saliva. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa32.htm
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No, this is absolutely untrue.
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Not sure. Spread malaria though
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No. There is only one way to contract HIV
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No. AIDS can only be transmitted through human to human.
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Hope not :P
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Nope
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They say no but how could they not, I think the govt. tells them to say no to keep down wide spread panic but personally I wouldn't want to take the chance or be a ginny pig to have an experiment in a lab of someone with aids get bit then someone else get bitten by the same mosquito
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Potentially...but it would be EXTREMELY unlikely.
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No it cannot.
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I assume you mean HIV. Highly unlikely, the blood needs to be kept at body temperature and you don't get blood from the mosquito, the mosquito takes blood from you. HIV is not a very hardy virus.
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no only by sexual fluids
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If a mosquito bites an infected person and then bites you within a few seconds it is theoretically possible, though unlikely.
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The HIV virus cant survive very long out side it host, but if for some freak accident the bug suck blood from an infected person and immediatly flys into your mouth with an ass full of blood and you eat it, then i guess you might.
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The chances are so small that you shouldn't worry about it.
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Most mosquitos only bite once. Your blood is used to feed her larvae until they hatch, so odds are almost assuredly no.
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its an interesting question, not one that has been researched a lot I dont think. Back in the 80's when aids was just beginning to surface, lab tests were done with the virus left on an empty agar plate, the virus survived for over 30 hours. Now if a mosquito sucked the blood from an aids affected person, and then cam straight away and bit you,( you know when a mosquite bits, it injects its fluid into your skin to enable it to get the blood flowing easily), thats the time the virus coule be transferred, well thats my theory, and Im sticking to it. Lets see, mosquitso carry some very nasty virus'es already, whats to stop aids................
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I remember hearing this question in health class, and the answer was no. I think it was because the mosquito cannot get a sufficient amount of it to infect another person but I am not sure. :)
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Technically, yes. Still, the time it takes for a mosquito to go from one to the other is a factor that makes it an occurence considered as rare, even not likely.
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No - extremely, extremely unlikely. See the other times that this question has been asked for sources.
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In order for the mosquito to be fast enough to transfer the virus, you'd probably need to be sleeping side by side with the other person, in which case the mosquito might not be necessary.
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This questions have been asked several times on AB. And the answer is that there negligible chances of AIDS being transmitted my mosquitoes. Aids will be transmitted from that body part where the body immune system is not strong and this Virus must be transmitted in sufficient amount or else the host will not fall victim.
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no this is false major AIDS cases have emerged due to indulgence of people in to unsafe sexual activities .so let's play it safe always and send some rubber to our friends via : sendsomerubber.com
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