Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.3) 9/5/84; site epimass.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Mosquitos can't spread AIDS (was: exploding seagulls) Message-ID: <151@epimass.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 14:07:21 EST Article-I.D.: epimass.151 Posted: Sat Feb 15 14:07:21 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Feb-86 09:04:54 EST References: <130@nbs-amrf.UUCP> <11847@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) Distribution: net Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 14 In article <11847@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) writes: >This is net.rumor, so I'll mention before anyone tries the above, that I've >heard that mosquitos can spread AIDS. Fortunately, this is false, according to the Centers for Disease Control. But one look around you (noticing that people are still alive in areas that have mosquitos) will convince you that you can't get AIDS that way. It's sure fortunate; we might have ten million dead by now. -- - Joe Buck Better to be silent and thought a pig than to oink and remove all doubt.