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From: claris!netcom!jfh@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Jack Hamilton)
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Subject: Re: Aids from mosquitoes
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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.
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Jack Hamilton                                         
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