HIV spreads through bodily fluid exchange, but why can’t mosquitoes sucking blood spread it?
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There’s a Tamil movie where AIDS spreads through a tender coconut seller. Not like, FROM him. Ltrly through him SELLING a tender coconut. So apparently he has AIDS, and while slicing a tender coconut open he accidentally cuts himself a little and the blood falls into the coconut or the straw or something like that. The protagonist drinks it. And she gets AIDS and her life ruined, her family wouldn’t believe her when she says she’s never done the deed for her to contract AIDS so she gets ostracized. It’s actually quite a good movie, but is this even possible?
Edit: i looked it up and apparently she gets infected through a wound in her mouth after an injury while having coconut water; the seller had inadvertently shed his blood into the straw while cutting open the coconut. This possible?
Unlike mosquito borne diseases, HIV is unable to replicate within the mosquito’s gut and therefore is broken down. In humans, HIV binds to T cells and begins replicating. No T cells exist inside the mosquito’s gut and so the virus has no way of replicating or migrating to the mosquito’s salivary glands.
You can read more here:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/why_cant_mosquitos_transmit_hiv/
Unlike mosquito borne diseases, HIV is unable to replicate within the mosquito’s gut and therefore is broken down. In humans, HIV binds to T cells and begins replicating. No T cells exist inside the mosquito’s gut and so the virus has no way of replicating or migrating to the mosquito’s salivary glands.
You can read more here:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/why_cant_mosquitos_transmit_hiv/
Unlike mosquito borne diseases, HIV is unable to replicate within the mosquito’s gut and therefore is broken down. In humans, HIV binds to T cells and begins replicating. No T cells exist inside the mosquito’s gut and so the virus has no way of replicating or migrating to the mosquito’s salivary glands.
You can read more here:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/why_cant_mosquitos_transmit_hiv/
Just wanted to clarify that HIV isn’t spread by just any bodily fluid. It’s limited to:
* blood
* semen
* pre-seminal fluid
* rectal fluids
* vaginal fluids
* breast milk
HIV cannot be transmitted via saliva, sweat, or tears.
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Just wanted to clarify that HIV isn’t spread by just any bodily fluid. It’s limited to:
* blood
* semen
* pre-seminal fluid
* rectal fluids
* vaginal fluids
* breast milk
HIV cannot be transmitted via saliva, sweat, or tears.
edit:formatting
Just wanted to clarify that HIV isn’t spread by just any bodily fluid. It’s limited to:
* blood
* semen
* pre-seminal fluid
* rectal fluids
* vaginal fluids
* breast milk
HIV cannot be transmitted via saliva, sweat, or tears.
edit:formatting
Just FYI it’s not any bodily fluid exchange. Unless you have an open sore in your mouth you can’t catch it from saliva unless you drank 67 gallons of someone’s saliva.
All diseases that can be spread by insects must have a stage that can replicate in the insect. Usually in its salivary glands. Viruses like HIV not only lack any ability to replicate in insects, they are structurally very fragile and easily inactivated when taken outside the human body, that’s why it takes a heavy and direct exchange of body fluids to transmit HIV.
Just FYI it’s not any bodily fluid exchange. Unless you have an open sore in your mouth you can’t catch it from saliva unless you drank 67 gallons of someone’s saliva.
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