Saturday, November 8, 2008

Does mosquitos can spreds the Hiv AIDS virus

Does mosquitos can spreds the Hiv AIDS virus?
For example if mosquitos bites someone and suck a bloods which contain the HIV AIDS virus and after that this same mosquitos bites another persons in that places. So, with this cases could this mosquitos spread the virus??
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1 :
no
2 :
No. if that were the case I would have been infected years ago. My partner is HIV+ and we have been bitten by the same mosquito on more than one occasion.
3 :
The answer is a resounding NO. From the start of the HIV epidemic there has been concern about HIV transmission of the virus by biting and bloodsucking insects, such as mosquitoes. However, studies conducted by the CDC and elsewhere have shown no evidence of HIV transmission through 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. There also is no reason to fear that a mosquito or other insect could transmit HIV from one person to another through HIV-infected blood left on its mouth parts. Several reasons help explain why this is so. Infected people do not have constantly high levels of HIV in their blood streams. Insect mouth parts retain only very small amounts of blood on their surfaces. Scientists who study insects have determined that biting insects normally do not travel from one person to the next immediately after ingesting blood. Rather, they fly to a resting place to digest the blood meal. Hope this helps

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