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- From: kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l)
- Subject: Re: AIDS Question:
- Message-ID: <C1C7CM.IAw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Keywords: AIDS
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:38:32 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
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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:
-
- >>>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.
-
-
- >>>Edward Simmonds- standard disclaimers
-
-
- >>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.
-
- >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.
-
- >Oh, could you possibly cite some sources for the above info?
-
- >>Steve Kellmeyer
- >>--
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- >>Steve Kellmeyer
- >>kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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-
- >Edward Simmonds- standard disclaimers
-
- The above was from memory out of three or four medical technology articles
- published within the last 3-4 years. If I had the articles, I'd give
- you the quotes...
-
- Steve
- --
-
- Steve Kellmeyer
- kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
-