RV fever: why kip won't stop taking his meat

I am not taking meat this month. But not my friend kip. This guys has funny reasoning.
He asks me, if you were to get HIV, would you rather get it through blood transfusion or through having sex?
Similarly, it's more acceptable to have rift valley fever from meat than to get bitten by a mosqo. A case of Damned of you do, damned if you don't, damned all round.