should we worry?

[shiato storm]

here's something that I hope is sort of thought provoking and stirs those teeny-tiny grey things in your head...
i was out fishing this evening (thats fly-fishing, not that -[sod boring sitting by a canal in an anorak flicking magots in to its cloudy, still and smelly water]-type fishing) and whilst getting mauled by the local wildlife, which consisted largely of mosquitoes, i was wondering this:
if a mosquito can pass on blood born diseases, such as Malaria (as we already know), is it possible for them to pass on things like HIV? or other unsavourary ailments someone REALLY doesn't want to get?...

just imagine yourself in a big crowd on a hot day - think Glastonbry [several 100k?], there is a certain percentage of those people around you that have to have some sort of nasty bug in them(e.g. 1 in 5,000 have HIV)...so what's stopping a mosie biting them and passing it on to you?!!!!

well, i hope you sleep well

(i hear fly nets are sold at most outdoor adventure stockists)

[Flibb]

This could be totall bull but I think that maleria comes from a parasite in the mosie's rather than the blood of its infected previous meal. The mosie injects saliva to stop the blood clotting and its tha saliva that contains Maleria, but there shouldnt be any way that Aids can get into the saliva because the mosie isnt an organism that aids can infect.

Flibb
P.S.
Any joy with ta fish what you chassing trout? Have just got some fly fishing bits together so will hopefully be out in Kent.

[acidrainy]

Hmmmm.... although I'm unsure about this, I'm fairly positive it would be a more widely known thing if there was danger of that kind of thing......

Will ask the med student at work in the morning to bring up something in conversation though

[petrefax]

Originally posted by Flibb
This could be totall bull but I think that maleria comes from a parasite in the mosie's rather than the blood of its infected previous meal. The mosie injects saliva to stop the blood clotting and its tha saliva that contains Maleria, but there shouldnt be any way that Aids can get into the saliva because the mosie isnt an organism that aids can infect.

thats sort of what happens - i would describe the malaria life cycle if i didn't have such a h00ge hangover, take a look here for details

[Punky]

hmm...interestin. surely the mosquito would die from AIDS/HIV or whatever before it could infect anyone else, because its such a small insect? i dunno, i shall investigate this one metinks. i gotto go fishing soon as well - nice day spent by a canal, or mebbe carp fishin..hmmm...decisions, decisions....

[Creature]

i dont go to glastonbury so i wont be next to a HIV hippy.
so i should be ok

[Punky]

i'm going to reading, but i guess the amount of alcohol/weed in my blood over that weekend will kill any disease in there, haha

[Slick]

I'm off to leeds fest again this year, I think that the state of the portaloos and the trashy junk food should be more of a worry than this

[Punky]

the cost of the food worries me more. i only used a portaloo once at reading last year, it was on the sunday night and it was scarily spotlessly clean!i have no idea why it was so clean though, but i didn't complain

update: Dirty Sanchez crew will be on the comedy stage, boyo!