Can mosquitoes transmit AIDS

As sexual life becomes more and more open, various sexual ambiguous relationships such as one-night stands are constantly prevalent in this world, so the number of patients suffering from AIDS has increased in recent years. But AIDS is not only transmitted through sex, AIDS can also occur through blood circulation. So many people will say, can mosquitoes transmit AIDS?

HIV is a very weak virus. Under laboratory conditions, although HIV can survive for several days or even weeks, 90-99% of these viruses lose their ability to infect (but are still alive) just a few hours after leaving the body and being exposed to the air. This result was measured under conditions of extremely high HIV concentration (high concentrations of viruses are easier to preserve). Daily conditions are much worse than laboratory conditions, so it is easy to imagine how HIV survives in vitro.

HIV can survive for a few days in sputum, blood or secretions outside the body, but conventional disinfection methods (disinfectants, heating, exposure to the sun, etc.) can easily kill them. Compared with the foot-and-mouth disease virus, which can be spread hundreds of kilometers with a tailwind and survive two weeks in dry feces, the pitiful survival ability of HIV is almost negligible.

Because HIV is so fragile outside the body, the possibility of it being transmitted through the environment is extremely low, to the point where there is no need to worry at all.

Mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS

Some people are worried that after a mosquito bites an AIDS patient, the HIV virus can be transmitted to other people through the mosquito bite. In fact, this is unnecessary worry. There is no evidence to prove that HIV can be transmitted through the bites of blood-sucking insects. Mosquitoes can indeed transmit some diseases (such as malaria) through their bites, but those diseases are transmitted through the mosquito's saliva. HIV does not have this function and can only be transmitted through blood. Laboratory studies have shown that blood-sucking insects, including mosquitoes, never spit out the blood they have previously sucked.

Also, there is no need to worry about the blood remaining in the mosquito's mouthparts, as a certain amount of HIV must enter the human body for infection to occur. But firstly, the level of the virus in the blood of AIDS patients will not remain at a high level for a long time; secondly, the mouthparts of mosquitoes cannot pick up much blood; and thirdly, AIDS virus cannot reproduce in the body of a mosquito, so the amount of virus is far from enough to cause infection. Entomologists say that after a mosquito has fed on a person, it has to digest the blood it sucked before looking for the next target. After this period of time, the HIV virus has long lost its ability to infect.

According to the conclusions of scientists, it is not difficult to find that mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS. There is no need to worry about being infected with AIDS if bitten by mosquitoes in the summer. If you really want to get rid of AIDS, you must have a healthy sex life. Only in this way can we live a healthy life without any illness.