Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site hpfcla.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!hpfcdc!hpfcla!ajs From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Re: Scary thought about AIDS (Don' worry!) Message-ID: <17400012@hpfcla.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 19:14:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfcla.17400012 Posted: Sat Nov 2 19:14:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:10:25 EST References: <1966@aecom.UUCP> Organization: 02 Nov 85 17:14:00 MST Lines: 14 >> What if AIDS had been spreadable by mosquitos? With its long incubation >> period we'd almost all have it by now. > [Several responses saying "where have you been? it's not a problem"] I knew AIDS wasn't carried by mosquitos when made the first posting. Let me restate the "what if": "What if another disease as nasty as AIDS comes along, which CAN be spread by mosquitos?". Do you think it's possible? Likely? Inevitable? (With five billion people on the planet and lots of international travel, why hasn't it already happened?) Alan Silverstein