Question: can a mosquitoe bite cause HIV

Makobu Kimani answered on 18 May 2018:

No it cannot. The letter H in HIV stands for Human. Therefore the virus is specific to Human. When an insect takes up a blood meal, the blood goes into its gut. Here there are only insect specific cells while the HI virus (please not I said HI not HIV virus, drives me cray when people say HIVB virus!), needs human T-cells so the virus is unable to survive and cannot be transmitted to another host when the insect next takes a bite to get a blood meal.