STI Mythbuster: HIV infection by a mosquito bite?
[Signer] Jeff Panasuik
[Image description] The signer is using royal blue leading scrubs behind black background with medical sign on left side.
[Transcription]
You can get HIV by mosquito bite.
No.
Not possible.
Mosquito’s needle in skin is used to draw blood inward to mosquito’s body, not outward.
When a mosquito bite you, the blood will remain in the pest and any blood will not able to travel far from insect to your body. After HIV got in the pest’s body, it can’t contaminate the mosquito, and virus will die within a brief time.
So, for individuals to be infected with HIV from mosquito bite is not possible.
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