How comes AIDS/HIV doesn't spread with mosquitos?!


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How comes AIDS/HIV doesn't spread with mosquitos?


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While the HIV virus is fragile and must remain in specific conditions to survive, it is not impossible HIV to be spread by mosquitoes it is simply highly unlikely.

You'll find that most HIV/AIDS experts will claim that HIV can only come from sex or needles. While this is a nice story to keep the public from panicking and clamoring for mass quarantines of those infected, it is not the whole story.

Consider that the same experts claim that HIV jumped from a monkey or chimp to the first human to have it... do you honestly think that the first person infected got infected from either having sex with an infected monkey or shooting up with the monkey's needle? The fact is that it is possible to transmit the virus in ways beyond sex and needles, and however unlikely those methods are they are still a possibility.

If you study HIV/aids you'll also find that a small percentage of cases are from undetermined sources. This doesn't mean they couldn't tell which partner passed it, this is label is applied to people that have no risk factors such as sex/drug use/transfusions. It is completely possible that those unlucky few were bitten by those mosquitoes that had just bitten an HIV infected person and that all the stars lined up for the highly unlikely but possible transmission.

So... depending on who you ask and how honest they are willing to be, AIDS/HIV can be spread by mosquitoes but it is very unlikely that it will happen.




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