Xref: utzoo sci.med:25753 sci.med.aids:2825 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!ucla-cs!usenet From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.med.aids Subject: Re: AIDS from insect bites Message-ID: <1991Jun18.135531.23843@cs.ucla.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 12:24:03 GMT References: <1991Jun3.210223.3884@uoft02.utoledo.edu> Sender: news@cbfsb.att.com Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ihlpz.ATT.COM Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 33 Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu Note: non-commercial reproduction. Nntp-Posting-Host: squid.cs.ucla.edu Archive-Number: 3263 >>>>> On 13 Jun 91 18:32:54 GMT, spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse) said: Eberhard> In <1991Jun12.020736.27657@cbfsb.att.com> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: >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.] Eberhard> Well, sigh, it is quite obvious (like a lot on sci.med.folklore). Eberhard> It sucks blood. [...] I was thinking of the "dirty IV drug needle" analogy, specifically the outside of the mosquito's "needle"; and that maybe that it is so uncommon for a mosquito to be brushed away from person A after a 1/8 of a second unsatisfying bite and then bite person B that it hasn't shown up statistically (and therefore not something to be much worried about)... >>>>> On 13 Jun 91 21:02:31 GMT, decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!pwallich@uunet.UU.NET (Paul Wallich) said: Paul> Added to this, of course, is that HIV seems fairly difficult to Paul> transmit -- insofar as the blood- borne cases can be quantified, Paul> I think they all involve significantly more blood than one Paul> mosquito can carry.) But we are told that microscopic tears in the skin can be a route for transmission (via shared bodily fluids). [please post, not mail replies]