Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It there a doctor in the House? So how are the mosquitoes infected by diseases such as yellow fever and malaria? Was the great African American Dr. George Washington Carver wrong in has understanding of the disease cycle of yellow fever bearing mosquitoes? I submit that a mosquito must bite an infected person to transmit disease. My wonderful friend, the sage Jewish physician that delivered my son, the man in Africa now exposing himself to AIDS by treating women in that cursed continent, the man who is a great Leica shooter (is this on topic or what), postulated to me that mosquitoes are not implicated in the transmission of AIDS only because they do not carry a dosage of the virus large enough to overwhelm the immune system of a healthy person. I hope that my friend is correct, because I live in an AIDS infected area. By the way - only females bite. - ----- Original Message ----- From: <henryp@bhphotovideo.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 6:44 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: WAS:have a beer, NOW: mosquitos! ;-) > 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 >