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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 07:23:26 GMT
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- kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) writes:
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- >vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
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- >>I just heard something which I would like to hear more about:
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- >>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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- >>Edward Simmonds- standard disclaimers
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- >That would not be at all surprising. Few people realize the incredible
- >promiscuity of the male homosexual community (lesbians are apparently
- >not nearly as bad in this regard). It is not at all uncommon for a
- >male homosexual to average over 100 different sexual partners in a
- >single year. Homosexuality and prostitution are major vectors for VD
- >for precisely this reason. Hemophiliacs require a component of blood
- >(Factor VIII) that makes up less than 1% of normal blood. A pint
- >of Factor VIII requires several thousand pints of blood to manufacture.
- >Thus, hemophiliacs "experience" a similarly high blood contact ratio.
- >IV drug users shoot up several times a day. If they share needles on
- >even half of those "shoots" they share blood contact with well over
- >500 individuals a year. The idea that AIDS is Everyman's disease is
- >a pretty big lie. Only those segments of the community that experience
- >high rates of blood contacts are ever going to be seriously affected
- >by AIDS.
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- >Anyone who tries to use the African example of AIDS plague is overlooking
- >serious differences. The very high rate of sickle cell anemia means
- >African hospitals go through 3 times the blood volume of US hospitals
- >in OB/GYN wards and transfer units. Almost no nation tests their blood
- >supply for AIDS - it would break their meager medical budget. Promiscuity
- >is much more commonly accepted in those cultures than in the US. This
- >makes any comparisons apples to oranges.
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- >Ditto Thailand. Southeast Asia is legendary for rates of IV drug use
- >and promiscuity. They also have no budget for blood supply testing.
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- >No blood contact, no AIDS. It's that simple. The gay community simply
- >has a tremndous amount of political force in the US, and they're
- >wielding it for all it's worth. ONe could hazard guesses as to why they
- >have this clout - it may well have somthing to do with the dominant visual
- >media culture in an increasingly non-literate society.
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- Thanks for you enthusiastic response, but I was hoping for something a
- bit more specific with regard to how the CDC came up with this number.
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- Oh, could you possibly cite some sources for the above info?
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- >Steve Kellmeyer
- >--
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- >Steve Kellmeyer
- >kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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- Edward Simmonds- standard disclaimers
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