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From: michaelm@vax.DSD.3Com.COM (Michael McNeil)
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Subject: Re: Aids from mosquitoes
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Date: 7 Aug 90 15:42:00 GMT
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claris!netcom!jfh@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Jack Hamilton) writes:

>In article <37661@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> bob@ozdaltx.UUCP (Bob Culmer) writes:
>>Yes.  An attempt to culture HIV in mosquito blood cells failed.  As
>>you may know a culture is more favorable than "real life" situations.
>>In other words, things multiply in cultures where they wouldn't be as
>>successful elsewhere.  Hence, failure of HIV to culture in mosquitos
>>would be IMO about as conclusive as scientific knowledge gets.
>
>I believe I've read that syphillis, for example, is extremely difficult to
>culture, even though it grows easily enough in actual humans.  HIV could
>behave the same way.

Except that it doesn't.  (There are *no known* cases.)

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