If a mosquito bites someone with HIV and then bites me, can I get HIV? If not, why?
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Rather, they fly to a resting place to digest the blood meal.
I’ve always learned that they use blood to reproduce, not digest it.
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Rather, they fly to a resting place to digest the blood meal.
I’ve always learned that they use blood to reproduce, not digest it.
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The blood meal is “digested”, it’s just that the nutrients are necessary for egg development.