Posted on 09/01/2014 10:54:33 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
In a TED 2014 talk earlier this year in Vancouver, microbial ecologist Rob Knight explained that the bacteria, or microbes, on skin produce different chemicals, some of which smell more attractive to mosquitoes.
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But there's an equalizer for those that naturally draw swarms of mosquitoes. The same pests are attracted to beer drinkers.
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I believe that you should be able to run the experiment and reproduce the results.
9:00 am - Drank a beer. No mosquitoes.
9:05 am- Drank second beer. No mosquitoes. Went outside.
9:10 am - Drank third beer. No mosquitoes, but attacked by moth.
9:15 am - Drank fourth beer. No moth, but I think he got in the third beer bottle and I might have drank him.
9:20 am - Drank fifth beer. No mosquitoes or moths, but hummingbird evidently thinks my nose is a flower.
9:25 am - Drank sixth beer. Peed through fence into neighbor’s garden. And he wonders why he gets such big carrots. Thought I saw a mosquito but it turned out to be a helicopter. Mooned the helicopter. Helicopter fired chain gun at me. I’m drunk and even I could shoot better than that. I give helicopter the double bird. Missile inbound. Blows up neighbor’s garden.
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I remember someone saying it was according to blood type. The more common the blood, the more often one gets bit.”
My son is AB negative, rarest of all, only one percent of population have that. He has always been plagued with bites.
I don't know, I always assumed the mosquitoes biting me are from the local blood bank and "testing" everyone for type B blood (mine) and were having a shortage so after my first hit, the others are merely stocking up!
With type O being the most common, I know it's not true that the mosquitoes hit that type most often, as my former husband is type O and almost never got bit especially with me around, as I was and continue to be, the magnet for the mosquitoes no matter where I am!
“How does it survive the transfer to a syringe needle and then to someone else?”
“If a mosquito bites someone and less than a minute later it bites me how is that different than the syringe?”
“Is the mosquito magical in some way?”
The HIV retrovirus survives in certain biospheric conditions favorable to the virus, but it is destroyed by common agents outside its favorable biosphere such as ultraviolet light, Oxygen, and so forth. The syrings needle may in isolated instances provide enough Human proteins and protection from the general environment for its survival until it can be introduced into another Human biosphere. Insects lack the unique Human proteins necessary for the HIV retrovirus to find protection from the general environment. This is why HIV is generally a sexually transmitted disease and direct Human or primate bloodborne retrovirus. Expose the HIV retrovirus to a non-Human biosphere and non-himan proteins and you destroy the organism.
See for example:
Can I get infected with HIV from mosquitoes?
By Mark Cichocki, R.N.
http://aids.about.com/od/technicalquestions/f/bugrisk.htm
They avoid the melanomas?
My question would be. If a person has HIV and you get a drop of blood from them then how long does HIV remain alive in that drop? Lets say it is dark and 98 deg, and you just put the drop on a table top??? Does this drop have an environment that will allow the HIV to survive for a few moments? Or, does blood instantly become a poisonous medium and magically destroy the HIV as soon as it is removed from the body? If this is so then how come a blood donation can pass the HIV virus? It is just a lot of small drops of blood that have been removed from the body. Why are HIV pos individuals barred from donating blood if this blood can’t have live HIV in it?
If the drop of blood is very tiny (like the amount on and in the mosquito) how does this make a difference?
If it is 98 degrees out, at night(no UV) and the mosquito bites the HIV infected person and then one minute later bites you..what exactly has killed the HIV in that small amount of blood?
If HIV is so incredibly sensitive to UV and O2 how could it be in human blood since that highly oxygenated blood is exposed to both UV and O2 constantly. UV penetrates the skin somewhat and all blood circulates just below the epidermis constantly. If it were sensitive to a lack of O2 then how quickly would it succumb? 60 seconds? And again, a blood donation would have less O2 than circulating blood does...same for a drop on a table top.
I seriously doubt that you could find a virologist anywhere that would allow an HIV pos person to be bitten by a mosquito and then a moment later let the same mosquito bite them. No one in their right mind would do this.
We are talking a minute or two here, I doubt that the HIV destructs in just seconds.
I’m not talking about HIV surviving in or on a mosquito for an hour...just a minute. This seems important when you are in close proximity with HIV pos people and mosquitoes (A barbeque in the Castro district, perhaps :-)
I don’t get bit by mosquitoes but do like my barley pop. I did get a big nasty bite from a horse fly this weekend. Blood running down into my shoe.
I also never had poison ivy or poison oak. I could play in it if I wanted to. My wife can merely walk by a patch and get it.
My dad never got bit. Our oldest daughter? We could rent her out at parties as a bug lamp, she can get bit even with no mosquitoes around.
Here’s Why Mosquitoes Can’t Transmit HIV
Christina Sterbenz
Aug. 22, 2013, 11:45 AM
http://www.businessinsider.com/mosquitoes-cant-spread-hiv-2013-8
Smell
I invented the seven-pack of beer. It never caught on. The plastic beer holder thingy company made a prototype for my seven-pack, but I guess it was just too much competition for “Big Beer” so I think they got bought off.
My strategy is to have someone next to me for whom the mosquitoes are more attractive than myself (Mrs. Catnipman for example).
“The more common the blood, the more often one gets bit.”
So, those with the least amount of commoner blood, like blue-bloods for example, would be bit the least?
The same pests are attracted to beer drinkers.....I REALLY doubt that. If I said how much beer I drink every week, I’d be inundated with tips, the State cops would be here and everyone would say you must be drunk to post that. I might get a mosquito bite every five years or so, never got one in the years I spent in VN, the Phillipines or Thailand. These people ain’t looking deep enough. (I think it has to with Tabasco Sauce).
Back in my drinking days I worked in Asphalt and used to ‘bleed’ every day and get attacked by every bug imaginable.
I used to ‘blame’ the sweating and ‘bleeding’ beer attracted the bugs which I, in turn, would fight off by constantly having a cigarette (cigars for awhile) burning.
I was discussing this with a neighbor the other day and I remarked that today, when going to baseball games etc the mosquitoes and other various insects seem not to bother me.
He said that I must be saying everyone else must be a drunk that complains of the insects.
(He always tries to put double meaning to everything).
I said a more logical explanation would be that I don’t use deodorants, ‘flowery’ soap, after shave, bug spray etc etc etc.
Either I have enough booze in my system that repels them, my ‘logic’ is correct OR they are attacking me and I just don’t care????
Like standing behind the screen and have a foul ball come straight back to the screen. I don’t/won’t flinch and people comment on it all the time (from what I hear). I haven’t the heart to tell them that the reason I don’t flinch (probably) is because I haven’t seen the ball until it was to late to react.....Pop flies are also ‘harder’ for me to track.
Must have something to do with 1939....I also stand at all games, (can’t comfortably get in and out of those ‘portable seats’ and the bleachers get real uncomfortable in no time at all...besides need a rail to steady when climbing the bleachers)
Hell to get ‘old’ but guess it beats the alternates and I refuse to go sit in a corner etc etc etc.
(I think it has to with Tabasco Sauce).
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Or garlic....
Remember it used to be reasoned that if one used enough Hot Sauce etc that, if hungry enough, a mess of ‘horse apples’ would/could be edible....
Also if one ate the local food from vendors on street corners in the countries you mention, there is no telling what you may have eaten or at least had pass through your system back in the day.
Remember it used to be reasoned that if one used enough Hot Sauce etc that, if hungry enough, a mess of ‘horse apples’ would/could be edible....Yep. I begged Mom to quit sending me cookies, muffins or anything like that because they were full of ants, cockroaches and anything you can think of. I BEGGED for Tabasco, Spam and Beef Jerky. Even a cockroach won’t try Beef Jerky. I found out. (By the way, my niece sent a silver chain with a bottle cap on it and a case of 1/2 ounce Tobasco sauce.) She’s in my will. I heard they might still be available.
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