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bechbumgrl

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Hiv And Mosquito Bites
Posted: 09-29-03 21:25pm

I was recently asked if you could get aids or hiv from a mosquito and I know you cant because they have a certain enzyme that prevents them from spreading it but could you please give me more detail or and information web site I could go to. Thank you for your help. Wink
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LAWRENCE

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Posted: 11-01-03 00:43am

If a mosquito can spread malaria, west nile and all sorts of diseases through out history, why can't they spread aids? Or even those biting flys. I have killed many mosquitos and biting flys and many times they will have blood inside of them. Explain to me why if that mosquisto or biting fly freshly bites someone with aids and then bites me, how come I can't get infected? I think that I could, but science and the government don't want to start a mass panic by telling the public. I think a large number of those infected probably got it from some kind of insect bite...But then again, I am very stubborn and wont believe otherwise without firm scientific proof.
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NicNat

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Posted: 04-02-04 03:56am

Because that's just plain not how you're infected with west nile. The mosquito is not secrting infected blood to you. I have recently seen a website that addressed this. I'll look for it and get back to you.
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NicNat

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Posted: 04-02-04 04:00am

"no, hiv/aids cannot be transmitted from an insect to a human. Take the example of malaria and mosquitoes. Malaria gets into the blood of a mosquito and lodges itself into the salivary glands of the mosquito. It is then transmitted into a human through the saliva of the mosquito. The malaria protozoan can mutate and develop in the saliva of the mosquito. Hiv is a virus that reproduces in the blood cells that a human has not the cells of an insect. Hiv/aids needs a different kind of host than an insect to develop. Hiv can live in an insect for a very short amount of time. It will not transfer into the saliva of a mosquito, which is the only way a disease is transmitted. It simply cannot reproduce in a mosquito because of the lack of blood cells. This concludes that even if hiv enters a mosquito or other insect, the insect cannot become infected and it cannot transmit hiv to a human. "
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rbob

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Mosquito Bites And Aids
Posted: 09-24-07 13:45pm

This concerns me also. I was reading some websites that say that a mosquito will digest the virus within 1-2 days, wouldn't the mosquito's nose that punctures the skin and retrieves the blood act the same way a needle would work when someone with AIDS gives someone else AIDs through the sharing of needles? If a mosquito went and drank blood from an infected person and then immediately went to an uninfected person and drank their blood, wouldn't that pass the infection? Not through their salvitory glands, but through their skin piercing nose/mouth? I have not seen a clear answer concerning this particular area of question. Does anyone know if this would be a way of passing it. My mother had told me that my great cousin John has passed away from AIDS, I never met him, but she wanted me to come to the family gathering, I went, it was outdoor, my great cousin was gay. There were a lot of gay men there at the gathering that were friends or something of his, I was bitten while we were outside by a mosquito, it concerns me just a little, that perhaps I was not the first one bitten at that gathering, and perhaps John was not the only one that was infected. Could someone please shed some light on this subject for me. The subject of the nose being compared to a needle, not anything to do with the stomach. I am pregnant and this is really bugging me. Thank you!
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