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If a mosquito draws blood from someone with HIV/AIDS and then draws blood from you, can you contract HIV/AIDS?


If a mosquito draws blood from someone with HIV/AIDS and then draws blood from you, can you contract HIV/AIDS?

No.

The mosquito is drawing blood from the other person into themselves for the purpose of breeding. That blood stays within them and does not comingle with your blood or body.

No. In order for a mosquito to transmit a virus from one person to another, the virus must be able to replicate in the mosquito to increase the number of infectious viruses that will be delivered with the next blood meal. HIV does not replicate in mosquitos or any other insect.
If mosquitoes were a source of HIV, then we would all be at risk for contracting AIDS, not just homosexual males, hookers, etc.
The same is true for many other blood-borne viruses such as polio and hepatitis viruses.

There are several reasons why HIV cannot and is not spread by insects, like mosquitoes.

1) Epidemiology: there is no evidence that HIV has been spread by insects in areas where there is a high incidence of AIDS and large populations of insects.

2) Insects inject their own saliva as a lubricant to assist feeding. They do not inject their own or a previously bitten persons' blood. Malaria and yellow fever are transmitted through insect saliva. HIV isn't.

3) HIV does not survive nor reproduce in insects.

4) HIV generally does not survive long enough outside of its host to be spread by the insect's mouth area. Insects also do not generally feed on two people in immediate succession. There is usually a rest period in between feedings.

5) The reasons why HIV does not survive or reproduce in insects does not have any significance for humans. HIV (HUMAN immunodeficiency virus) is only fatal to humans.

No need to run out for the bug repellent. HIV is not transmitted this way.

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Your first two answers are incorrect. You do not have to worry about aids this way because the aids virus is too large to enter a mosquito . You should be worried about the infections coming from people.

no,you can't contract hiv/aids that way because mosquitoes die shortly after drawing blood from someone.

No, the HIV/AIDS virus does not live out of the body.

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