Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 03, 2017

If mosquitoes only chose a more traditional lifestyle.

Just one little prick was all it took … (from a mosquito, that is … uh huh, uh huh)

What does she think he has? Does she know it’s AIDS?

There was a fear that aids could be spread by mosquito bites. Research said no.

I’m still convinced you get Aids from looking at girls panties and listening to nut jobs shouting ’ God’s will be done’ at the same time

What an odd time in history, the Cubs were doing well.

Nowadays mossies can give one West Nile Virus and there is some concern about the Zika virus in the tropics.

For a while it was thought to affect only gays and Haitians. The parents are busy trying to figure out how to convince themselves that their son is Haitian.

Maybe I’m just clueless, but this is the first time I realized Andy was gay and had AIDS.

Of course, I wasn’t reading Doonesbury in 1989, so my knowledge of the strip’s history all comes from the recent reruns.

I always liked how he looked at dad in the 4th panel… as if saying “you told her WHAT?”

How horrible to have such parents. Obviously they’re flaming Republicans.