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From: honig@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU (David A Honig)
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Subject: Re: Mosquitos & AIDS
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When AIDS first started getting media hype, there was a report from 
french researchers that mosquitoes could be vectors.  This was later
surpressed/denied, and the public told "it can't happen".  Sorry I
don't have the reference.  

The facts are that the risks of transmission are proportional to the 
amount of blood transferred.  This is a small, but nonzero, quantity
when being bitten by a mosquito that's already fed.