The Nation - News from Aug. 23, 1985
No evidence exists to support theories that mosquitoes or hepatitis B vaccine can transmit the virus believed to cause AIDS, researchers said in today’s Journal of the American Medical Assn. The bulk of evidence implicates sexual contact and exposure to blood or its components as vehicles for the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, Dr. D. Peter Drotman of the national Centers for Disease Control said.
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