Mosquitoes can't give you HIV or COVID-19

Mosquitoes cannot transmit HIV or COVID-19, and the science is pretty clear on why.

HIV is a fragile virus that can’t replicate inside a mosquito. The mosquito’s digestive system destroys it. Even if a mosquito bites someone with high viral load, the virus gets broken down. And mosquitoes don’t inject blood from a previous victim into you — they have separate tubes for sucking up blood and for injecting saliva. That saliva doesn’t carry HIV.

COVID-19 is a respiratory virus. It lives in your lungs, nose,