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- From: tedr@athena.cs.uga.edu (Ted Kalivoda)
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- Subject: Re: AIDS and those damn democrats
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.145244.2414@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 14:52:44 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.155922.21844@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Jul23.222741.1@msscc.med.utah.edu> <1992Jul24.094829.136@cheshire.oxy.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul24.094829.136@cheshire.oxy.edu> leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt) writes:
- >Any comments on the idea that the virus is spreading so rapidly among
- >the heterosexual population in SE Asia and Central Africa because it has
- >mutated to become more suspectible to heterosexual transmission.
- >
- >You know, I think SE Asia is an indicator... considering that the West
- >has practically turned the entire area into one giant brothel, for wealthy
- >heterosexual men, that AIDS is rampant, and was introduced by Westerners,
- >and that it was probably spread by them... what does that say about it's
- >true prevalence in Western heterosexual populations?
- >
- >Thom
-
- Any virus can mutate, but I think it's unlikely that any type of AIDS virus
- will spread among the heterosexual community with ease. There has to
- bleeding by both partners for their to be spread, and bleeding infrequently
- occurs.
-
- The Asian crisis should be interesting to analyze. The data now is
- probabaly very unreliable. What do we know of drug use? Of anal sex with
- prostitution? Of the amount of homosexual risk activity? I would like to
- see some tough studies done on the breakdown of sexual activity and drug
- use.
-
- As for Amercia, the heterosexual proportion of those infected with HIV is
- rising for the most part because the IVDA and Homosexual proportions are
- decreasing, by the result of both information and death.
-
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