Can mosquito bites transmit HIV / AIDS? This is what prof. Zubairi Djoerban

Tribunnews.com reporter, Rina Ayu

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – Health expert and internal medicine specialist, subspecialty of hematology-oncology (cancer) Prof. Zubairi Djoerban Confirm, mosquito bite or skin contact with mosquito blood is not transmitted HIV AIDS.

As a doctor who often deals with HIV / AIDS patients, the myth that the disease is transmitted through mosquito bites is not new.

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Often patients with a diagnosis do not HIV worried about the patient HIV next to him, and asked to change his living room for fear of being infected mosquito bite.

“Actually this is not a new problem, even many people believe it. However, there is no medical fact to state this. mosquito bite can transmit HIV“he said, quoted from his Twitter upload on Tuesday (12/9/2022).

Moreover mosquito bitecase research HIV AIDS the first in Indonesia said, HIV AIDS they will also not be transmitted by sharing crockery, bathing, mosquito bitecoughing, sneezing, sweating.

“It’s all non-infectious HIV“said the doctor who practices at Kramat 128 Hospital, Jakarta.

However mosquito bite can transmit various virus diseases, such as hemorrhagic fever or malaria.

“Virus HIV in the body of the mosquito it is not calm, vulnerable and cannot live, alias it will die quickly “, added Prof. Zubairi.

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