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Can You Get an STD From Mosquitoes?
Comedian Brian McKnight says mosquitoes can't carry HIV because they lack a receptor that the virus needs to get into the cell. Even if it sucks your HIV infected blood and then lands on me, maybe like, and you're right, there's really no transfer of blood back to me. But I think part of the issue is mosquitoes don't feed on two different humans back to back,. And the HIV virus is incredibly unstable.