Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:27 PM 07/15/2001, you wrote: >Years later I noticed in a report that the area around that lake had an >unusually high incidence of AIDS. I'm told (but have trouble believing ) >that mosquitoes aren't a vector for that disease. Still I'm glad we escaped >with only a few score punctures... They're not. A female mosquito only bites once. Gets the blood she needs to create and lay her eggs and is done. For a mosquito to spread AIDS, she'd have to bite an infected individual then bite a second person and transmit blood from the first to the second. <<MY OPINION, not my employer's>> hp