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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Is AIDS incidence cresting in the US gay community?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.012429.20123@cs.ucla.edu>
- Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:59:34 GMT
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- The 1992 case-level in L.A. County is running 5% below that of 1991.
- Is this happening in other major urban areas too?
-
- Some epidemical studies indicate the new case rate would crest in the
- mid-90s, decline, then stablize at some steady-state level. This reflects
- that (1) the majority of infections- at least in the gay community-
- occured in the late 1970s and early 1980s and (2) about 5% of infected
- people become ill each year after infection.
-
- (If this trend is appearing now, it is not a cause for optimism, because it
- means there are still an equally large number of people on the other side
- of the curve.)
-