Can mosquito bites transmit AIDS?

It is common medical knowledge that AIDS is contagious. This is why many people are unwilling to make friends with AIDS patients. This is understandable, after all, there is no cure for AIDS so far. However, if you can clearly understand the transmission routes of AIDS, you will actually have a more correct understanding of AIDS. You must know that some friends, due to lack of common knowledge about AIDS, think that AIDS can be transmitted by mosquito bites. So, can mosquito bites specifically transmit AIDS?

In the early days of the HIV epidemic, people were concerned about whether mosquito bites and blood sucking could spread the HIV virus. However, studies have shown that there is no evidence that HIV can be transmitted through mosquitoes, even in areas with a high incidence of AIDS caused by mosquito infestations.

Someone isolated the human immunodeficiency virus (AIDS) from the stomach of a mosquito and found that after the mosquito sucked the blood of an AIDS patient, AIDS could survive in the mosquito's stomach for three or four days. But experts believe that this does not mean that mosquitoes can spread AIDS. Some people worry that the blood left in the mosquito's mouth may contain AIDS and can be transmitted to humans. However, studies have found that there is only 0.0004 ml of blood remaining in a mosquito's mouth. Based on this calculation, it would take 2,800 bites for the residual blood to carry enough AIDS to cause infection. And mosquitoes will not bite or suck blood for at least four days after sucking blood once.

In addition, epidemiological survey data do not support the claim that mosquitoes can transmit AIDS. Because compared with other age groups, the incidence of AIDS among teenagers is very low, and they often have more opportunities to be bitten by mosquitoes. Therefore, it is currently believed that mosquitoes are only temporary carriers of AIDS, and it cannot be proven that they can spread AIDS.

Mosquito bites may transmit other diseases (such as yellow fever, malaria, etc.), but they will not transmit HIV. Mosquitoes spread malaria because Plasmodium enters the mosquito's body and multiplies in large numbers. When the mosquito carrying Plasmodium bites another person, it injects the Plasmodium into the other person's body, infecting the person. When mosquitoes bite a person, they do not inject their own blood or the blood of the previous person who was sucked.

They simply inject their own saliva, which prevents the person's blood from naturally clotting. There is no HIV in their saliva. Moreover, there is only a very small amount of blood on the beak, and the amount of virus is extremely small, not enough to infect the next person bitten.

Moreover, the HIV virus will only survive for a short period of time in the body of an insect and will not continue to reproduce in the body. Insects themselves don't get AIDS.

I believe that after reading this article, you must have a clear understanding of the question of whether mosquito bites can transmit AIDS. Here I would also like to remind all friends that many AIDS patients are infected with this disease due to blood transfusion infection, so we should not treat this group with discrimination. We also hope that medicine can develop rapidly and find a solution to AIDS.