Malaria Treatment FAQ:
Why is it that we can get West Nile Virus and Malaria from Misquitos but not the HIV virus?
I’d really like to know the difference and why this can’t happen?
Get over it
I see that makes perfect sense!
Who gives all these thumbs down?
Geesh…..
Why is it that we can get West Nile Virus and Malaria from Misquitos but not the HIV virus?
I’d really like to know the difference and why this can’t happen?
Get over it
I see that makes perfect sense!
Who gives all these thumbs down?
Geesh…..
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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. It injects saliva, it acts as a lubricant so the insect can feed efficiently. Diseases such as yellow fever and malaria and West Nile are transmitted through the saliva of specific species of mosquitoes. HIV has not been found in the salilva of mosquitoes.
Because HIV is HUMAN immune virus. Only humans can get it and spread within themselves.
This is due to what is known as virulity. I am not well enough versed in the subject, nor is their space here, to explain the mechanics of virulity adequately.
Just be greatfull that AIDS can’t be spread so casually; but also realise that it isn’t impossible that it could conceivably evolve to be.
I would suggest browsing the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control & Prevention for more information on this subject. Also, try the National Academy of Sciences.
Yeah, I don’t get the thumbs down stuff either. Completely factual answers get em. IDK, but its frustrating.