Can I get HIV if a mosquito has bitten someone with HIV? Why or why not? Does it make a difference if the person is standing beside me and the mosquito bites me after biting them?
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The thing about diseases that you can catch from mosquitos is the disease infects the mosquito as well as humans.
The disease needs to get into the mosquito’s saliva, which it injects into you when feeding.
For HIV it can’t infect the mosquito so just gets digested in the mosquito’s gut. Mosquitos keep their mouth clean enough that there is no known cases of infection from just the bite.
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