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From: arf@chinet.chi.il.us (Jack Schmidling)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: What's the Why and How of Mosquito Bites?
Summary: citations please
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Date: 18 Aug 89 18:49:29 GMT
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Article 2400 in sci.bio: 
From: sue@gtx.com (Sue Miller) 
Subject: Re: What's the Why and How of Mosquito Bites? 
 
 
> I don't see where Russell changed the subject.  He states  
very clearly that the only diseases which mosquitoes can  
transmit are ones which also infect the mosquito. 
 
ARF says: 
 
I doubt that he said that.  If he did, he is wrong.  Did you  
ever see mosquito die of malaria? 
 
 
>HIV has shown itself to be unable to survive in a mosquito,  
therefore you cannot get AIDS from a mosquito bite.  
 
ARF says: 
 
I didn't know that a virus could conduct a study. 
 
If you ment to say that studies have shown the above, the  
object of this discussion is to review the studies not  
repeat the media hype about them. 
 
 
> Researchers have spent many hours looking for insect  
vectors for the HIV/HTLV (whatever) group of virii and have  
thus far found none.  
 
ARF says: 
 
Citations please! 
 
 
>There is no statistical evidence (like patterns of AIDS  
infection matching up with other mosquito-borne infections), 
   bla...bla...bla... 
 
 
ARF says: 
 
I have already pointed out the absurdity of asking AIDS  
victims if they were ever bitten by a mosquito. 
 
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