[tortoise]

Amazing, a disease that can be prevented by proper behavior choices.

Ignoring the fact that a HUGE amount of general anti-viral technologies have come out of the HIV problem (before which, we had literally no anti-viral capability). So it has definitely helped everyone. I personally know people who have been successfully treated for nasty non-behavioral viral diseases with drugs that came out of HIV research.

That said, I've had a couple epidemiologists tell me that they suspect there may now be a mosquito vector for HIV. While there is no conclusive proof at this time, there are at least two distinct locales of the world (one in southeast Asia and one somewhere in Africa) where they have seen infection patterns that are consistent with mosquito vectors that have not yet been explained. You may not care about HIV today, but you may very well care tomorrow.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Many believed the mosquito theory about 20 years ago. I lived in south Florida at the time & people started using lots of bug dope. I hope this is not true. West Nile virus is vectored by mosquitos though.

[Post Toasties]

That, of course, flies in the face of the heated 'assurances' by US health 'authorities' that it is impossible for mosquitoes to transmit the AIDS virus.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The epidemiologists that I have talked to tell me that there is no evidence of a mosquito vector at all. There aren't enough childred being infected to blame mosquitos. The distribution of infection should look like malaria or yellow fever or west nile if mosquitos were a vector.

This doesn't mean that such a vector could not arise.