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Sure is, this is the kind of news i want to see about us.

JOACHINpedro:
Interesting

SeriouslySense:
Sure is, this is the kind of news i want to see about us.

Yea. It's novel and researchworthy

officialwdhtv:
This Nigerian mosquitoe farm owner believes that the enzymes from mosquitoes may have something to do with the cure of HIV AIDS.

Take a listen!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlqCRe9JZo8

microbes dwelling in the human body. However, one passage really caught my attention: Bryson noted how HIV, the agent behind the AIDS disease, is not transmissible by mosquitoes (page 312). This fact caught me off guard. I had always known that HIV is not spread by mosquitoes but had never questioned why.
Mosquitoes are carriers for several infamous viruses, most notably malaria and dengue fever. In fact, mosquitoes, through mosquito borne diseases, kill more people per year than any other animal. Luckily for humans, the HIV virus is not carried or spread by mosquitoes. Several reasons account for the inability of mosquitoes to transmit HIV.

1. Mosquitoes' Blood-Sucking Mechanism

As Professor Wayne Crans of Rutgers University so nicely puts it "mosquitoes are not flying hypodermic needles." The "snout" of a mosquito, the part that looks like a needle, is actually composed of six mouthparts. Four of these are used to pierce the skin of the person or animal that the mosquito is biting. The other two parts are composed of two tubes. One of the tubes sends saliva into the host and the other sends blood up to the mosquito. This two tube system is one reason why mosquitoes are unable to transmit HIV. Only saliva is injected into humans when a mosquito bites and thus HIV positive blood that a mosquito may have previously ingested is never transmitted to other humans.

2. The HIV virus gets digested in the mosquito's gut

Unlike mosquito borne diseases, HIV is unable to replicate within the mosquito's gut and therefore is broken down. In humans, HIV binds to T cells and begins replicating. No T cells exist inside the mosquito's gut and so the virus has no way of replicating or migrating to the mosquito's salivary glands. HIV particles are therefore digested by the mosquito alongside the actual blood meal. During the digestion process, the HIV particles are "completely destroyed."

3. HIV circulates at low levels in human blood

In order for mosquito-borne diseases to be spread from person to person, the associated virus needs to circulate within the host's blood at sufficient levels. HIV circulates in human blood at a far lower level than would be necessary to create a new infection. If a mosquito were to inject HIV positive blood into a human (which, as evidenced by reasons 1 and 2, is not possible), then it would take a whopping ten million mosquito bites to transmit one unit of HIV. By comparison, people who are HIV positive generally carry no more than ten units of HIV. Accidentally swallowing a mosquito or squashing one cannot lead to HIV infection either. In these situations the mosquito once again carries an insufficient amount of HIV positive blood to cause a new infection.

Sources:

Scientific American. "If a used needle can transmit HIV, why can't a mosquito?" Scientific American. June 4, 2001.

Crans, W. "Why Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit AIDS." Rutgers University. April 2006.

Yong, E. "Here's What Happens Inside You When a Mosquito Bites." National Geographic. August 6, 2013.

Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama. Can we get AIDS from mosquito bites? The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society 151, 429-33 (1999).

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3 Comments

Those who are HIV positive should desist from using mosquito net biko

7 wonders of the world.

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JASONjnr:
Wondering if Nigeria have the capacity to experiment things that could lead to any form of discovery of this kind when back at the University, we weren't given the privilege to experiment with uranium... Heard that Africa is banned from doing so... But Russia and European countries keep experimenting and creating more nukes to their massive weapon collection....

I get uranium for my backyard.

Zonefree:
A mosquito farm

A mosquito farm,Odiegwu ...One day he go hear am.

MatrixCircle:
I farm different types of Ants in my Ants farm.
I make over 400 k monthly from the ants and Thier turn over is high. Feeds locally sourced.....

Interesting. Who do you sell the ants too?

ukaface:
Is this man that is producing all the mosquitoes in Nigeria.

Lol

Enkidu70:
Mosquito farm?! Dude need to be arrested asap

Make dem do fast find cure,make everybody dey knack raw

[quote author=Emac34 post=116219667] Don’t they usually die after a week [/quote


Modified**

Please quote me when you find...

Lagosanambra:
Please where is the biggest books market in Lagos?

I need to get some controversial books. Foreign authors.

Even if this is true . The people who control the world narrative will never release funding for this experiment and will also make sure it never sees the light of day.. yall should follow Andrew Tate

mytime24:
How true is this

make Dem kuku sell this country,e no go better for Buhari and his cabals

Lagosanambra:
Please where is the biggest books market in Lagos?

I need to get some controversial books. Foreign authors.

Hard to answer but you can check Ojuelegba, Island and Boundary for what you want.

Nothing person no go hear

JASONjnr:
Wondering if Nigeria have the capacity to experiment things that could lead to any form of discovery of this kind when back at the University, we weren't given the privilege to experiment with uranium... Heard that Africa is banned from doing so... But Russia and European countries keep experimenting and creating more nukes to their massive weapon collection....

Cos they know Africans have very wicked mind, if they allow them, they will use it to wipe out the entire world at a slight provocation.

A mosquito farmer who harvest malaria for a living

How much d man dey buy 1 mosquito
Because mosquito wey dey my side here Dem reach like 3m

Has it been proven yet

All I know is, mosquitoes should be eradicated from earth, enzymes or no enzymes.

mosquito farm in this Nigerian, this man get mind

Local man is flabbergasted and cannot can.
No be say tomorrow wunna go say mosquito swallow money oo. Cos our leaders dey see us like say we still dey use feeding bottle.

Doctor don’t waste your time. The cure was made before the disease

Originalsly:
The doctor is on to something. If the virus is killed before transmission it simply means there is a virus killer somewhere in the mosquito... and that he's trying to find.. What he observed so far he should've kept a secret. Pfizer or one such Goliath will use this as a stepping stone ... find the cause.. and patent the the discovery.

Pfizer and other Goliath have the cure before creating the virus.

nokspos:


Pfizer and other Goliath have the cure before creating the virus.

..... I hear you!... but not on HIV.... that one got away from them before they found ways to control it. Ebola... and Zika.... I agree.