![]() Hands and other parts of the body should be washed immediately after contact with blood or other body fluids. To prevent even such rare occurrences, precautions should be taken in all settings including the home to prevent exposure to the blood of persons who are HIV infected, at risk for HIV infection, or whose infection and risk status are unknown.įor example, gloves should be worn during contact with blood or other body fluids that could possibly contain visible blood, such as urine, faeces, or vomit.Ĭuts, sores, or breaks on both the caregivers' and patients’ exposed skin should be covered with bandages. ![]() These transmissions are believed to have resulted from contact between mucous membranes and infected blood. Rather, they fly to a resting place to digest the blood meal.Įpidemiological studies (that examine statistics on where and how HIV spreads) have shown no relationship at all between HIV and the existence of mosquito’s or mosquito bites.Īlthough HIV has been transmitted between family members in a household setting, this type of transmission is extremely rare. ![]() There are several reasons why a mosquito or other insect cannot transmit HIV from one person to another even if there is HIV-infected blood left on its mouth parts:ġ) Infected people do not have constantly high levels of HIV in their blood streams.Ģ) Insect mouth parts retain no (or too small amounts of) blood on their surfaces.ģ) Finally, scientists who study insects have determined that biting insects normally do not travel from one person to the next immediately after ingesting blood. Thus, even if the virus enters a mosquito or another insect, the insect does not become infected and cannot transmit HIV to the next human it bites. Unlike organisms that are transmitted via insect bites, HIV does not reproduce (and does not survive) in insects. However, HIV lives for only a short time inside an insect. Rather, it injects saliva, which acts as a lubricant so the insect can feed efficiently.ĭiseases, such as yellow fever and malaria are transmitted through the saliva of specific species of mosquitoes. The results of experiments and observations of insect biting behavior indicate that when an insect bites a person, it does not inject its own or a previously bitten person's or animal's blood into the next person bitten. No, it is not possible to get HIV from mosquitoes or other biting and bloodsucking insects.
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