HIV spreads through bodily fluid exchange, but why can’t mosquitoes sucking blood spread it?

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HIV spreads through bodily fluid exchange, but why can’t mosquitoes sucking blood spread it?

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The virus cannot survive or reproduce in the mosquito. Mosquitos take about a couple days to digest the blood they consume, essentially the time between blood consumption, and the virus dies in that time.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9795564

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