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Letter: Mosquito mystery

Published 9 September 1995

From Steven Ford

Tangentially to your feature “Mosquitoes that kill malaria” (5 August): no one has yet shown that HIV can be transmitted by a nonhuman vector. But if the relatively huge malaria parasite can be transmitted by mosquitoes, why not the minuscule HIV molecule? Does this point to a potential means for combating HIV transmission or infection?

Issue no. 1994 published 9 September 1995

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