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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: WAS:have a beer, NOW: mosquitos! ;-)
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:14:18 -0400
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010716094330.04df49f0@bnhpop1.bhphotovideo.com> <p05100306b778da55f64d@[209.53.33.7]>

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
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In reply to: Message from henryp@bhphotovideo.com ([Leica] Re: WAS:have a beer, NOW: mosquitos! ;-))
Message from Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com> ([Leica] Re: WAS:have a beer, NOW: mosquitos! ;-))