West-Nile, H.I.V. and the moskito?
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If mosquitos could transmit HIV, we would all have had it by now.  Mosquitos live in every environment and everyone has been bitten at least once.  \n\nHIV is much more common than West Nile - there is not a big number of mosquitos carrying West Nile.\n\nMosquitos do not bite one person, then another, then another.  They bite one person then they have to rest & digest.  \nBecause they are digesting a blood borne pathogen that does not infect them - it is not re-transmittable.\nWest Nile is a very different virus than HIV and infects the mosquito - making it tranmissable.\n\nIf any miniscule amount of HIV infected blood is on the mosquito's mouthparts, then the virus would die on contact with the air.
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I am dubious about the answer 32. The Blue Nile and the White Nile run through 9 countries.  They are Uganda, Sudan and Egypt for the White Nile. Ethiopia, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi either have tributaries of the Blue Nile or are traversed by the Blue Nile. \n\nI think that therefore 9 is a more correct answer, since I do not see any of these countries sharing any of those valuable resourse with their neighbors.
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I heard it came from some natives engaging in sexual contact with the monkeys, getting infected with the virus and passing it on to a human partner.I have absolutely no refference material for this speculation tho, it's something i heard a long time ago.
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http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/ojibwe.html\ntheir feet & canoes
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Hired by a team of scientists investigating suspended animation, Davis was sent to Haiti to discover the truth behind the mysterious Haitian legend of the zombi -- a mindless corpse allegedly reanimated by black magic and forced into servitude through the arts of shady voodoo experts. Shockingly, Davis discovered that the legends contained a large grain of truth, albeit radically misinterpreted by most audiences. According to Davis, zombis did in fact roam the Haitian countryside. However, they weren't technically undead.\n\nThe process began when a voodoo priest (known as a houngan) or some other properly educated individual decides that someone in the community has wronged him, or someone else, and must be punished. Backed by a strong cultural context and the predispositions created by the religious beliefs of the local people, houngan creates a special powdery toxin that sets the stage for zombification.\n\nThe intial dosing contains large amounts of a poison known as tetrodotoxin, aka pufferfish. The pufferfish is a delicacy in Japan, where daring gourmands enjoy preparing the fish very carefully in such a way as to remove its toxic glands. If the preparation is not sufficiently careful, the diner instead goes into a deep paralytic coma that can resemble death. If the preparation is really sloppy, actual death can ensue. The line between coma and death is extremely thin, which is why the fish is suitable for zombification, naturally.\n\nThe upshot of all this, according to Davis, was that the victim appeared to drop dead after being topically exposed to the poison, which he anecdotally heard was scattered on the doorstep of a house where it entered through the victim's feet. After the victim was "dead" and buried, the houngan and his cronies would unearth him or her a few days later in a terrifying ritual enhanced by a second powder containing hallucinogenic drugs.\n\nBetween the trauma of being buried alive, the effects of the first drugging, the trauma of being dragged from the grave in a midnight ritual, the effects of the second drugging, and the cultural expectations of people living in Haiti, the victim's psyche was so royally fucked that they deeply, truly believed they had been transformed into a soulless, will-less undead creature and behaved accordingly -- following orders and shambling a lot. (Some victims eventually recovered their bearings, although they were never quite the same.)
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There were many theories regarding relationships between Egypt and Mezoamerican cultures.  Yes, there are pyramids, but it only makes sense to worship the sun and what better way to worship than to build structures that point TOWARDS the sun?  \n\nBack in the 70s and 80s a man named Thor Heyerdal built boats out of papyrus and sailed them from Cairo to Yucatan.  He proved that they COULD have sailed to the Americas, but there never was any conclusive evidence of it.  By now, with genetic mapping, someone would have tried to link the Maya or Aztec markers to Pharaonic times.  I have not heard or seen anything to persuade me otherwise.  \n\nIt is much more likely that peoples from later than the Egyptians, with an empire based on sailing and trade, reached the Americas.  Those would be the Phoenicians.  With their origins in the far Eastern Mediterranean (present day Lebanon), a branch split off and founded the empire of Carthage in northern Africa.  They had a trading and sailing monopoly in the ancient world, and a large enough power base that the Greeks gave them a wide berth, and it wasn't until the Romans that they were subdued.  \n\nBut I digress.  Phoenician sailing vessels were rowing galleys with a large sail, similar to a Viking ship, but with several tiers of rowers.  Biremes (two rows) triremes (three tiers), all the way to quintiremes (five), were capable of carrying hundreds of troops.  They were technologically advanced enough that they could have reached the Americas.  Again, no proof.\n\nAs for Atlantis, who knows where Atlantis is.  Some say it was in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.  If that is the case, that was not very far from Egypt, or Northern Africa, but pretty durn far away from Mexico.\n\nSo to asnwer your question:  There is no conclusive evidence of any relationship between the Aztecs or Mayas and the Egyptians.  A pyramid is a fairly basic shape, pointing skyward at the "sun god".  Could simply be coincidence.
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It is Debatable, Whether they Are Alive or Not, I personally Think Not, Some Neat Images: http://www.virology.net/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html
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We were just discussing this at a family meal the other night. It's interesting to say, WHAT IF the government knew it could be spread that way and didn't tell us. That would be scary.\n\nI believe the chemical process that happens in a mosquito has to do with passing on malaria and similar type things.  I've been told the chemical process in the mosquito kills any chance of passing HIV. I sure hope that is true!!\n\nThe government is using fish to eat mosquito larvae to slow the spread of West Nile Virus.
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its a viral fever caused by mosquito bite.\ncheck this link http://www.westnilefever.com/
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http://images.google.com/images?q=nile%20crocodiles&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wi
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a nile?  or the Nile?  no, i can't show you.  Yahoo! Answers doesn't have a "draw" feature.  But why don't you go check out a map of Egypt.
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The Nile still supports much of the population of Africans living along its banks, as well as Egyptians, the latter living between otherwise inhospitable regions of the Sahara. The river flooded every summer, depositing fertile soil on the fields. The flow of the river is disturbed at several points by cataracts, which are sections of faster-flowing water with many small islands, shallow water, and rocks, forming an obstacle to navigation by boats. The sudd in the Sudan also forms a formidable obstacle for navigation and flow of water, to the extent that Egypt had once attempted to dig a canal (the Jongeli Canal) to improve the flow of this stagnant mass of water (also known as Lake No).\n\nThe Nile was, and still is, used to transport goods to different places along its long path; especially since winter winds in this area blow up river, the ships could travel up with no work by using the sail, and down using the flow of the river. While most Egyptians still live in the Nile valley, the construction of the Aswan High Dam (finished in 1970) to provide hydroelectricity ended the summer floods and their renewal of the fertile soil.\n\nCities on the Nile include Khartoum, Aswan, Luxor (Thebes), and the Giza–Cairo conurbation. The first cataract, the closest to the mouth of the river, is at Aswan to the north of the Aswan Dams. The Nile north of Aswan is a regular tourist route, with cruise ships and traditional wooden sailing boats known as feluccas. In addition, many "floating hotel" cruise boats ply the route between Luxor and Aswan, stopping in at Edfu and Kom Ombo along the way. It used to be possible to sail on these boats all the way from Cairo to Aswan, but security concerns have shuts down the northernmost portion for many years.
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I heard that on the radio today.  As I recall, a team of researchers in Gabon found this particualar strain of HIV in chimp droppings out in the bush.  Imagine going to West Africa to study chimp droppings.
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probably Cataracts of the Nile
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I'm not sure, but to me it sounds like it might have been a wooly mammoth from a Flintstones episode.\n\nI just stumbled on a site that lists a lot of H-B characters in imdb style:\nhttp://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/ihbfd.htm\n\ngood luck!
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Well u can check out these links hope they will be informative enough:o)\n\nhttp://www.water-technology.net/projects/mubarak/\nhttp://countrystudies.us/egypt/89.htm\nhttp://carbon.cudenver.edu/stc-link/aswan/techn.htm\nhttp://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/egypt/egypt106.html\n\nThese sites are talking about the high dam and toshka project.
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If it wasn't for the revenue from licences and the vigilance of fishermen our rivers would be in a state. How much time do the antis spend near the water, how much knowledge do they have of aquatic life and what are they doing to keep rivers and ponds maintained. I've been in a syndicate before, the lake was dug on an old grass-track racing track. The lake is teeming with life, we maintained it and paid particular attention ti the wildlife that we were keen to attract to the water, from insects up to water birds and even mammals such as the water vole which is supposed to be extremely rare. Pffft I've seen them every time I visited the lake. Anglers can also recognise the first signs of disease and nip it in the bud before it gets out of hand.\n\nWhat next? Ban fly spray?