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- From: vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- Subject: Re: AIDS Question:
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:20:37 GMT
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- thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
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- >In article <C17yKL.K1q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
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- >>I just heard something which I would like to hear more about:
- >>
- >>Jesse Helms (AGGH!! scream the liberals) quoted the Center for Disease
- >>Control today as stating that the average male AIDS patient has had
- >>more than FIVE HUNDRED sexual partners. Can anyone refute or confirm
- >>this? If in fact the CDC has come to this conclusion legitimately
- >>I would be pretty startled.
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- >In all the research I did for Richard Posner's book on the economics of AIDS,
- >not once did I come across this figure or anything remotely near it. Nor
- >have I ever seen it in the sci.med.aids postings from the CDC summaries.
- >Sounds to me like Jesse Helms is making it up or you misunderstood what he
- >actually said.
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- I'm quite positive about what he said, but I didn't say I necessarily
- believed it.
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- >Of course, you could actually call up the 1-800 number of the CDC and
- >confirm or refute it for yourself. Let us know what they say.
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- Perhaps I shall, thanks for the advice.
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- >--
- >ted frank | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu
- >standard disclaimers | void where prohibited
- >the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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