On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Pete Theisen<[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen Russell wrote: >> <http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2009/aug/10/flying-needles-mosquitoes-deliver-malaria-bites/> >> >> > > Hi Stephen, > > It is an often asked question, seems obvious, actually. The official > answer, however, is "no". > > The explanation of that "no" is that the AIDS virus is too large for the > insect to deliver through her salivary glands *and* even if it were not > too large the incubation period is so long that the mosquito would die > before the virus developed in her system. > > Now what if the mosquito were to nail an AIDS guy and then fly directly > to you and stick her sticker into you in less than a minute? There > wouldn't be enough blood in the little mosquito mouth to carry the > infection *and* she doesn't inject blood anyway but rather swallows it, > injecting only saliva. > > Still gives you the creeps, doesn't it? Even if the mosquito could > transmit AIDS the government would have a huge incentive to deny it! > > *If* the mosquito could and the government *admitted* it then they would > either have to do something about AIDS or do something about mosquitoes. > They aren't anywhere close to doing either. ------------------------------
Yet you get a needle stick at a hospital today and your medical life will now always refer to that "event." Why will a blood donation center ask you so many questions about being in Africa? If you answer yes to any Africa Q your donation is tossed. Without any medical tests to support this I still feel 100% that AIDS can be transferred via mosquitoes. The governments have squelched that piece of information to keep the public safe in their mindset. I don't think that a few African nations are full of whores and johns who are just screwing each other into oblivion. I worked with a young man from Kenya who told me about life off the main route through the country. This is a real big problem. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
