Spread of A.I.D.S.
Sir,—While camping recently I was kept awake by the activities of various nocturnal blood-sucking insects, including mosquitoes. Others sleeping in the vicinity may well have been A.I.D.S. suffers. Is it possible that these insects with their dirty needles are able to carry the A.I.D.S. virus from victim to victim, as they do with malaria? — Yours, etc., ADRIAN RAMSAY.
January 7, 1986. [Dr M. A. Brieseman, Deputy Medical Officer of Health in Christchurch, replies: “Your correspondent raises what is indeed a theoretical means of the transmission of A.I.D.S. However, in practical terms there is no suggestion that A.I.D.S. is spread by biting insects.”]
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