QUESTION Can mosquito cause AIDS, and why? ANSWER No, HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) cannot be transmitted via mosquitoes. When the virus was first discovered, there was a fear that it could be transmitted via the blood ingested by mosquitoes as they feed between humans. However, it was shown very quickly that the virus was too unstable to survive within the mosquito, and so … [Read more...]
Disease Burdens Shifting from Communicable to Chronic Diseases
Those working for healthier humans around the globe are making headway in fighting communicable diseases such as AIDS, malaria and diarrheal illness, and researchers at the University of Denver have found that there is a transition occurring in global health from disease burdens due to communicable diseases to chronic ones such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. "Because of great … [Read more...]