Editing Misconceptions about HIV/AIDS (section)

===HIV is transmitted by mosquitoes===
When [[mosquito]]es bite a person, they do not inject the blood of a previous victim into the person they bite next. Mosquitoes do, however, inject their [[saliva]] into their victims, which may carry diseases such as [[dengue fever]], [[malaria]], [[yellow fever]], or [[West Nile virus]] and can infect a bitten person with these diseases. HIV is not transmitted in this manner.<ref name="Webb, 1989">{{cite journal | last1 = Webb | first1 = P.A. | last2 = Happ | first2 = C.M. | last3 = Maupin | first3 = G.O. | last4 = Johnson | first4 = B.J. | last5 = Ou | first5 = C.Y. | last6 = Monath | first6 = T.P. | year = 1989 | title = Potential for insect transmission of HIV: experimental exposure of Cimex hemipterus and Toxorhynchites amboinensis to human immunodeficiency virus | journal = J. Infect. Dis. | volume = 160 | issue = 6| pages = 970–77 | pmid = 2479697 | doi = 10.1093/infdis/160.6.970 }}</ref> On the other hand, a mosquito may have HIV-infected blood in its gut, and if swatted on the skin of a human who then scratches it, transmission is hypothetically possible,<ref name="Siemens, 1987">{{cite journal | last1 = Siemens | first1 = D.F. | year = 1987 | title = AIDS Transmission and Insects | journal = Science | volume = 238 | issue = 4824| page = 143 | pmid = 2889266| doi=10.1126/science.2889266 | bibcode=1987Sci...238..143S}}</ref> though this risk is extremely small, and no cases have yet been identified through this route.