Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE drop this one...There is enough misinformation out there about AIDS without new bits of it spinning off from the LUG......... B. D. Henning Wulff wrote: > > At 9:44 AM -0400 7/16/01, henryp@bhphotovideo.com wrote: > >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 > > By that logic, mosquitoes couldn't transmit malaria or dengue fever > etc; not that I believe they are responsible for transmitting AIDs. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com