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- From: delphine@wpi.WPI.EDU (Delphine Clomenil)
- Subject: Re: Religion and AIDS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.175402.16972@cs.ucla.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul31.150240.11247@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:45:11 GMT
- Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu
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- In article <1992Jul31.150240.11247@cs.ucla.edu> portal!cup.portal.com!Arthur_T_Hu@uunet.UU.NET writes:
-
- Speaking of groups with low AIDS rates, are there ANY studies of AIDS
- incidence by religion? It's perfectly obvious that the Amish and
- fundamentalist Christians are practically immune to AIDS except thru
- ^^^^^^
- I don't think you meant to use this word: they are not immune to the
- virus but because of the fact that their society is so closed they
- haven't been in contact with infected people via sexual relations for
- instance. If by any chance one of them went astray and had sexual
- relations with someone outside the Amish community and this person was
- infected, then their chances of being infected and spreading the virus
- through the community are just the same as any group with the same
- sexual behavior.
-
- blood transfusion or hemophilia, but is there a conspiracy to withold
- any funding or effort to demonstrate that this is true? If no one on
- this net can cite a single study, is this evidence of such a conspiracy,
- or is it just plain idiocy or political correctness?
-
- I've already seen one article that states that homosexuality and drug use
- is unknown among the Amish, (though our friends maintain that 10% of them
- are gay)
- --
- Delphine Clomenil (delphine@wpi.wpi.edu) We Pay Incredibly
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-
- - From _The Restaurant at the End of the Universe_
- by Douglas Adams
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