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If a mosquito bites someone with a very active hiv infection and bites me immediatly after can i catch hiv that way?

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Dr. Ralph Morgan Lewis answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

No: This issue has been a concern since the onset of HIV ds. Studies conducted by the cdc and elsewhere have shown no evidence of HIV transmission through mosquitoes/any other insects. Mosquito does not inject its own/a previously bitten person's blood into the next person; it injects saliva. Hiv lives only a short time inside insect & does not reproduce or survive in insects.

Answered 6/10/2014

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Not known.: Mosquitos are not known to be vectors for hiv, and this is very unlikely.

Answered 5/28/2012

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