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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: AIDS Transmission (Addendum)
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 13:32:08 EDT
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> Some week's ago, someone asked me, on the analogy that a mosquito is sort of
> like a hypodermic needle, whether mosquitoes could transmit AIDS to people
> not in the usual risk groups.

	My response was "Well, you can't rule it our, but it's not something
I worry about."  Perhaps the following can be much more reassuring:
	A mosquito is not so much like a hypodermic syringe injection as it is
like a needle-stick.  In the last four years, over 500 nurses, doctors, and
med students have accidentally stuck themselves with needles while drawing
blood from patient's with AIDS.  All are being followed by the CDC.  Not one
of them has even turned Antibody-positive (which neccessarily precedes the
disease, but which is not necessarily an obligate precursor of it.)
	I hope the above, which translates to "It ain't happened yet" is
more reassuring than my first article.
-- 
				Craig Werner
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"