Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/16

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Subject: [Leica] Re: WAS:have a beer, NOW: mosquitos! ;-)
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:53:37 -0700
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010716094330.04df49f0@bnhpop1.bhphotovideo.com>

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.

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