HIV spreads through bodily fluid exchange, but why can’t mosquitoes sucking blood spread it?
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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.
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.
All good reasons. The good thing is that mosquitoes just don’t. If they did we’d be in lots of trouble. I would think more about viruses such as hep B which are more infectious than HIV. Truth is that HIV transmission is not so efficient. Hence why we have discordant couples. Granted, blood contact is a high risk event, but even sexually, some have opined that it is easier to get pregnant than to get HIV. But, would you chance it?
All good reasons. The good thing is that mosquitoes just don’t. If they did we’d be in lots of trouble. I would think more about viruses such as hep B which are more infectious than HIV. Truth is that HIV transmission is not so efficient. Hence why we have discordant couples. Granted, blood contact is a high risk event, but even sexually, some have opined that it is easier to get pregnant than to get HIV. But, would you chance it?
All good reasons. The good thing is that mosquitoes just don’t. If they did we’d be in lots of trouble. I would think more about viruses such as hep B which are more infectious than HIV. Truth is that HIV transmission is not so efficient. Hence why we have discordant couples. Granted, blood contact is a high risk event, but even sexually, some have opined that it is easier to get pregnant than to get HIV. But, would you chance it?
I’m gonna be honest here, for over 30 years, I thought they COULD spread it and that this was a big part of why it’s so prevalent in Africa. I think I got it confused with malaria.
I’m gonna be honest here, for over 30 years, I thought they COULD spread it and that this was a big part of why it’s so prevalent in Africa. I think I got it confused with malaria.
I’m gonna be honest here, for over 30 years, I thought they COULD spread it and that this was a big part of why it’s so prevalent in Africa. I think I got it confused with malaria.
HIV virions are actually quite fragile, they begin to disintegrate once they are outside of biological fluids, and the digestive enzymes in the mosquito destroys them quickly.
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