Xref: utzoo sci.med:25712 sci.med.aids:2818 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!ucla-cs!usenet From: spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse) Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.med.aids Subject: Re: AIDS from insect bites Message-ID: <1991Jun15.225050.8438@cs.ucla.edu> Date: 13 Jun 91 18:32:54 GMT References: <1991Jun3.210223.3884@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1991Jun9.031146.13314@cbnewse.att.com> <1991Jun12.020736.27657@cbfsb.att.com> Sender: usenet@quagga.ru.ac.za (Rhodes University NNTP server) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 37 Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu Note: non-commercial reproduction. Nntp-Posting-Host: squid.cs.ucla.edu Archive-Number: 3255 In <1991Jun12.020736.27657@cbfsb.att.com> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: >>>>>> "g" == grx0644 writes: >g> There is no evidence that the HIV virus can be >g> transmitted via insects bites. Lets look at a mosquito and how it >g> does what it does. >g> It bites its lunch and sucks up some blood. The mosquito then >g> digests the blood with protolytic enzymes that break down all >g> proteins [...] >Just curious, what if a mosquito bites person A for 1/8 second before >being brushed away. Still hungry, it immediately bites person B. >[I remember we went thru this discussion here years ago. I forgot >why the above was disproven also. Please post, not mail.] Well, sigh, it is quite obvious (like a lot on sci.med.folklore). It sucks blood. [In order to preempt the question how the moskito transmits malaria: that parasite goes through a cycle, transmits the gastric wall enters the salivary glands and then goes into the new victim.] Well, well... el ps: flames please per email to :-)-O -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse (spel@hippo.ru.ac.ZA) Katatura State Hospital (formerly extel@quagga.ru.ac.za) Private Bag 13215 (Real Soon Now ... el@lisse.NA) Windhoek, Namibia (no FTP yet. [This is Africa :-)-O])