Why do mosquitoes bite me and no one else?
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Because you smell the tastiest.\n\nEver wonder why the mosquitoes bite you and not the guy next to you? They are attracted to certain chemicals in the carbon dioxide being released from your body and the guy next to you doesn't have as much of these chemicals in his carbon dioxide as you do. However, there are thousands of chemicals already identified in human carbon dioxide release! What are these certain chemicals that attract mosquitoes? Have they been identified? Yes! but the scientists who discovered them aren't telling us exactly what they are! That’s right they are keeping these facts a secret! All they will say is that three key chemical signatures found in the release of human carbon dioxide will attract mosquitoes at a rate of 100%.
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Clearly, mosquitoes are the worst. What with all of their insipid blood sucking and what not. But what really creeps me out is when a gigantic bug flies onto you that you're not expecting, like a praying mantis or something. I'm really not feeling that action.
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If mosquitos could transmit HIV, we would all have had it by now.  Mosquitos live in every environment and everyone has been bitten at least once.  \n\nHIV is much more common than West Nile - there is not a big number of mosquitos carrying West Nile.\n\nMosquitos do not bite one person, then another, then another.  They bite one person then they have to rest & digest.  \nBecause they are digesting a blood borne pathogen that does not infect them - it is not re-transmittable.\nWest Nile is a very different virus than HIV and infects the mosquito - making it tranmissable.\n\nIf any miniscule amount of HIV infected blood is on the mosquito's mouthparts, then the virus would die on contact with the air.
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Because of the viral load. It does not replicate/ amplify enough in the mosquito to cause an infection in its next victim...\nIf say the mosquito suck a 'mouthful' of blood from an HIV individual...that would only work out to maybe 1 or 2 virions. Far more is needed for an infection to be transmitted.
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3 every morning work for me.  I actually see the mosquito approach me and fly away!  I used to swell up horribly from them.  I eat bananas, too.
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There are three reasons listed, at the site provided below, why it is impossible for a mosquito to transfer HIV.\n\nhttp://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm\n\nHIV is a virus, and, as we’ve mentioned in other questions and answers, HIV doesn’t do so well outside the human body. Once in the mosquito, the HIV would die very quickly. The mosquito never becomes HIV-infected, and nobody has ever become HIV-infected from a mosquito bite.\n\nhttp://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/insite?page=ask-05-11-09-02\n\nWhen a mosquito ingests HIV-infected blood, the virus dies (unlike malaria, which lives in the mosquito's intestinal system and is re-injected out in its oral fluid).  The mechanical procedure of feeding wipes blood off of the mosquito's proboscis--it is retracted into a sheath.  Even in geographical areas where mosquitoes proliferate, HIV is still seen only in sexual or blood-sharing adults. \n\nhttp://www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/hklb/hiv-aids/hivqandas.aspx
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you can not tell them a friends, they are a mosquito\nwhen they ask you for something tell them to ask other because you are not the right person to help them
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you know, what you're overlooking is that they probably just \nlike you.  Kind a like that movie where the alien ship is \ndestroying the Planet without knowing it.  I have the same \nproblem with mosquitoes, pleople tell me they just like me.\nOr perhaps my superion DNA.
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The adult mosquito is entirely terrestrial and is capable of flying long distances. Both females and males feed on nectars which they use for energy. Males and females mate during the first 3 to 5 days after they have emerged. Females mate only once. Males generally live for only a week. Only the females feed on blood, which is what is occurring when they are biting. Females evidently gain little nourishment from blood meals but need them in order to develop eggs. Many mosquitoes feed on any warm-blooded bird or mammal. However, some prefer cold-blooded animals. Some species also prefer birds and seldom feed on mammals, which is the case with Culex spp. mosquitoes which are known to transmit the West Nile virus (WNV). Unfortunately many species feed on a wide range of warm-blooded mammals and humans are often attacked. Once a female has completely engorged she flies to a shaded environment until her eggs are completely developed, usually 3 to 5 days. Once the eggs are developed the female is called a gravid female and she begins to search for a desirable place to lay her eggs. If a female survives her egg laying activities, she will very soon start searching for another blood meal after which she will lay another batch of eggs. She does not need to mate a second time. Generally a female will only live long enough to lay 1 to 3 batches of eggs. \n\nMost mosquito species are actively searching for a blood meal in the evening hours from just before dark until 2 to 3 hours after dark. During the daytime the females normally rest in cooler vegetated areas where the humidity is higher and they are protected from drying out. Females will often bite in the daytime if humans or animals invade the wooded areas where they are resting. However, Aedes albopictus is an aggressive biter which prefers to feed during the daylight hours and is often a nuisance in urban areas.
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First not enough blood is injested by the mosquito.\n\nSecondly,a mosquitos bite is actually two fold. \nThe first bite from one orifice injects a chemical/enzyme to stop the blood from clotting. This chemical is said to help neutralize the disease, this is what makes us itch from the bite. \nThen thru a different orifice the mosquito sucks a very, very small amount of blood and this blood is broken down inside the mosquito's body for food. The enymes of the mosquito make it impossible foir the HIV to live inside the mosquito.
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Mosquitoes tend not to fly very high, as it makes them susceptible to the elements.  They usually prefer guerrilla tactics, hiding in vegetation, flying out when a blood meal is close.  \n\nAnother thing is that mosquitoes rarely swarm.  When you see a swarm of "mosquito-like" insects flying up in the air, 9 out of 10 times they are MIDGES, a small insect that somewhat resembles the mosquito.
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Most female mosquitoes do not have the proper levels of protein produce viable eggs.  So, they drink blood in order to increase protein levels.  Male mosquitoes do not drink blood.
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You "could" get it at any time, not just in the morning.  Right now it is mainly in the India area but has been found in France too.  Jungle animals ( baboons) are the reservoir for it and it would primarily have to be a mosquito that bite one of the carrier animals that bit someone else and then a different mosquito would have to bite that person and then that mosquito would have to bite someone else.  So although it is not out of the question to get it, it will take some time for it to get here.    \n\n  but like i started out saying, it could be a bite at any time of day although mosquitoes usually are active at dawn and at dusk
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While it is possible it's virtually nonexistent. The mosquito would have to bite a person with HIV. This person would also have to be in a stage of infection when HIV particles are in the blood. The blood taken by the mosquito would have to have HIV particles in it. These HIV particles would have to somehow get into the saliva of the mosquito, and then be transferred to a new person. So it's really minimum.
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they are like mosquito bites just smoother and way more itchy! good luck in tracing the bugs cos they are tiny!
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Mosquitoes are attracted to the heat, humidity, and carbon dioxide that mammals emit. When they bite, some of their saliva is absorbed into the bite. Our body reacts to the "infection" and creates the bump and itch.  Calamine lotion is the best defense. Place it on the bump and it absorbs to relieve the itch.
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Mosquitoes prefer warm-blooded animals not just horses. The warmth is the main attractive feature for the mosquitoes. Another reason is that because horses skin  is not covered with fur, feather, thick hair thus there  is an  easy access for the mosquitoes to suck blood. Other animals which attract mosquito includes cattles, carabao, pigs and many others. Humans also attract mosquito.\n\nThere are remedies to protect horses from mosquitoes such as repellants and mosquito proof horse clothing.♥