I had an argument about mosquitoes with a virologist once.
I contended that Aids could be transmitted by mosquitoes, he said it was impossible.
I said “So, if a mosquito bites an Aids infected person and immediately flys to me and bites me there is zero chance of infection?”
He said there was no chance.
I told him he better start trying to find out what it was within the mosquito that instantly killed the Aids virus because there was a Nobel prize waiting for him.
“I told him he better start trying to find out what it was within the mosquito that instantly killed the Aids virus because there was a Nobel prize waiting for him.”
HIV is a retrovirus that is incapable of surviving the transfer of the retrovirus to the insect. The West Nile Virus can and certainly does survive such transfers, but the HIV retrovirus cannot.