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Can mosquitoes transmit HIV infection?

April 26, 2017infection mosquitoes transmit

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Can mosquitoes transmit HIV infection?

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There is no evidence of HIV being transmitted through mosquitoes. If it were, many more children and elderly people would be infected. The HIV virus in the blood is inactivated in the mosquito digestive system, just as it is in the human digestive system. When a mosquito bites it injects saliva, which may contain malaria parasites but does not contain HIV.