Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bigtuna.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!dual!islenet!bigtuna!brianm From: brianm@bigtuna.UUCP (Brian Martin) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Scary thought about AIDS Message-ID: <166@bigtuna.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 19:14:51 EST Article-I.D.: bigtuna.166 Posted: Sat Nov 2 19:14:51 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 04:54:43 EST References: <17400010@hpfcla.UUCP> Reply-To: brianm@bigtuna.UUCP (Brian Martin) Organization: University of Hawaii, Bekesy Lab, Neurophysiology Lines: 16 In article <17400010@hpfcla.UUCP> ajs@hpfcla.UUCP writes: >What if AIDS had been spreadable by mosquitos? With its long incubation >period we'd almost all have it by now. This has been checked out by the CDC, and apparently there is no risk for transmission of HTLV-III via an insect vector. I'm not sure of the reference, but I think it's a recent issue of JAMA, in the "Leads from the MMWR" section. By the way, the virus is inactivated by high and low pH and by exposure to a temperature of 56 C for ten minutes. Most standard disinfectants (Lysol, Clorox) and halogenated hand soaps will also inactivate the virus. Brian Martin University of Hawaii School of Medicine UUCP: ..!{dual,ihnp4,vortex}!islenet!bigtuna!brianm