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WhyAIDSdoes not spread through mosquito bite?

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1. When the mosquito bites with its probosis, it draws blood and injects saliva, which contains antiviral factors and immunoglobulins and hence cannot transmit HIV.
2. The blood from one person is not injected into the mosquito's next victim.
3. Secondly, HIV dies in the mosquito's body because the mosquito after sucking the blood digests the blood and doesn't immediately need to feed on another.
4. Therefore, it takes a while to digest this blood and by then, it has also digested all the virus containing cells.

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