Subject: Re: Viral encephalitis and birds of prey
Date: Jul 16 22:19:21 1996
From: Tom Foote - footet at elwha.evergreen.edu




On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Don Baccus wrote:

> >The doctors told me that I most likely got it from a mosquito that had
> >bitten a horse (that sorry little blood sucking son of a biscuit eater! I
> >hates dem all!).
>
> This is the classic mode of infection, isn't it?

Don--

Last week in the local newspaper there was a short filler
AP squib on some researchers working on a method by which
mosquitoes could carry a gene for immunity to Malaria..
theory being that the little *biscuit eater* offspring
could bite you and actually immunize you against getting
malaria.. hmmm-mmmmm...now if they would only get something
fatal from us in the process...

Tom