Can mosquitoes spread aids?

The AIDS virus (HIV) on used needles is infectious when injected into a human where the virus can bind to T cells and start to replicate. The human T cell is a very specific host cell for HIV. When a mosquito feeds on a person with HIV in his or her blood, the HIV enters the insect's gut, which does not contain human T cells. read more

There are two ways blood feeding arthropods can spread disease, mechanically, by simple transfer of virus between hosts by contaminated mouth parts, or, biologically, which would require virus replication in arthropod tissues (especially salivary glands). read more

Thankfully, we were reassured that that's not the case. Mosquitoes can not transmit HIV. read more

Iqbal MM(1). Author information: (1)Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a human retrovirus that infects lymphocytes and other cells bearing the CD4 surface marker. read more

NO,the reason mosquitoes can not spread aids is because aids is a very frail disease (it can not live out of the body very long) when a mosquito peirce's the skin it injects a fluid to thin the blood so it can extract it(which causes that red bump),this fluid kills the aids virus instantly. read more