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From: bob@ozdaltx.UUCP (Bob Culmer)
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Subject: Re: Aids from mosquitoes
Summary: Culture not the only evidence
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Date: 8 Aug 90 20:10:57 GMT
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In article <37705@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, claris!netcom!jfh@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Jack Hamilton) writes:
> 
> 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.

HIV does culture, but not in the mosquito tissue.  And that adds to the 
already very persuasive epidemiological evidence (see previous posts 
about children in Africa).

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