Can mosquitoes or bedbugs carry the AIDS virus?

Question by Art Cato:
Can mosquitoes or bedbugs carry the AIDS virus?

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Answer by Barrie
No, definitely not.

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Mental Retardation February 18, 2011 at 4:46 am: bedbugs… i know they dont carry aids, but mosquitoes (i think) maybe.
because of the fact they feed off of multiple peoples bloodstreams, one person can have aids, and the mosquito goes to another person without aids and contract it from the mosquito.

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Liz E February 18, 2011 at 5:43 am: the likely hood of that happening are very very low.

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Alyssa February 18, 2011 at 6:24 am: No. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. So HIV is the contagious virus, not AIDS.

You can ONLY get HIV through sexual intercourse(vaginal+anal), sharing needles and mother to child. NO other way!

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Media Master February 18, 2011 at 6:37 am: The answer is no.

Mosquito’s do not transmit AIDS or HIV, they digest the virus. Since the virus has to be active and living to infect a human it would not be able to transmit the disease.

Bedbugs have never been proven to transmit any disease in lab testing

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