Question by karpaga:
HIV is not spread by biting insects such as mosquitoes or bedbugs,why?
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Answer by emo ja
Because mosquitos do 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.
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Because the CDC says so. I think the entire population would run for the hills if they thought they could get a terminal disease from insects. No one knows about HIV, but other diseases can be transmitted through insect bites.
the mosquito only sucks your blood. Other people’s blood has to be transmitted to you
Mosquitoes and other bugs ar not able to spread this disease. I thought about this question once before, I was out with my fried and I slapped a mosquito off my leg, he said thats like so many people blood on you. I began to get nervous and I wonder were they able to spread it. Well, they cant, once the disease enter the bugs, its automatically killed. There bodies cant carry HIV/AIDS.
~erica~
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