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The Feminization of AIDS
NY Times ^ | Dec 13, 2004

Posted on 12/12/2004 7:42:49 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection

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To: ChildOfThe60s

...they all seem to come out of the woodwork when the word "sex" is involved...


61 posted on 06/13/2005 8:16:50 PM PDT by Monkey Face (It may be that your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.)
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To: Darksheare

Missed that one. Sounds like a dummazz.


62 posted on 06/14/2005 4:47:54 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Caution. Contents under pressure.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

They must have had fun writing this one. They throw everything but the leftist kitchen sink in assigning blame. I can't believe they deride, with a straight face, men who take young wives.


63 posted on 06/14/2005 4:53:40 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
In Thailand, 90 percent of AIDS transmissions a decade ago occurred between sex workers and their clients. More recent estimates suggest that 50 percent of the new infections are occurring between spouses, as men who picked up AIDS from prostitutes pass it on to their wives.

Sorry, but as with almost all AIDS hype, this sounds like BS intended to get more $$$ for those who've made AIDS their career. It also is intended to lessen the stigma for homosexuals.

The above claim, for example is not credible. If "sex workers" were transmitting the disease a decade ago, how come men only started passing it along to their wives recently?

There is more disinformation surrounding this disease than truth.

64 posted on 06/14/2005 4:56:15 AM PDT by laredo44 (Liberty is not the problem)
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To: punster
In 2001, the last year for which data has been posted, the rate for some countries was as high as 38%.

Based on actual testing for HIV? Or estimated from doctors' diagnoses based on a disease like tuberculosis presumed to have resulted because the patient was infected?

65 posted on 06/14/2005 5:01:29 AM PDT by laredo44 (Liberty is not the problem)
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To: kublia khan
Because of the size of the virus itself condoms are about as effective at stopping it as a volleyball net is at stopping a pingpong or golf ball.

So you're saying that HIV is smaller than a molecule of water, and smaller than a molecule of O2? Because a quality latex condom will hold both water and air under pressure.

66 posted on 06/14/2005 5:05:07 AM PDT by whd23
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To: Darksheare
A cursory web search shows tunneling electron microscope images of the virus, and shows what it does.

No it doesn't. The best search engine is Google. Try Google Images for AIDS or HIV and see what you come up with. Answer: Nothing.

If you have links to images of the virus (photos not drawings) then simply post them. Telling us that we can easily find them is not enough for this forum.

67 posted on 06/14/2005 5:15:00 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: InterceptPoint

I did google HIV, I came up with, in image search, the nice soccer ball shaped protein coating with the receptors on its surface that is HIV.
Thanks for playing.


68 posted on 06/14/2005 5:18:06 AM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Yeah, he was.
And Interceptpoint seems to think he knows what the troll was getting at and is trying to correct me.
*Snort*


69 posted on 06/14/2005 5:19:04 AM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Abstinence followed by faithfulness is 100% effective.

Wrong.

70 posted on 06/14/2005 5:19:29 AM PDT by laredo44 (Liberty is not the problem)
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To: Darksheare

Ha


71 posted on 06/14/2005 5:37:44 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Caution. Contents under pressure.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

That's what I said.
;-)


72 posted on 06/14/2005 5:38:59 AM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: laredo44
There is more disinformation surrounding this disease than truth.

Welcome to the liberal media.

73 posted on 06/14/2005 6:11:49 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (http://hour9.blogspot.com/)
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To: InterceptPoint

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=img&cs=utf8&q=%22HIV%22&rys=0&itag=crv

The link I posted to the lying sack of garbage troll MikeKen was stated to be an infographic, nice slap there about 'drawings.'
MikeKen said that AIDS and HIV are a hoax, and that HIV has never been isolated.
Funny, we know what it looks like and we know what protein receptors it has on its surface.

Image links:
What HIV does to red blood cells:
http://www.csend.hu/magazin/0102/hiv2.jpg

HIV attacking an immune system cell:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39909000/jpg/_39909923_cell203.jpg

HIV attacking yet another cell:
http://solair.eunet.yu/~yod/HIV.jpg

HIV budding out of an infected cell:
http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/biol115/wyatt/Micro/HIV_budding.jpg

Oh gee, check that out:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/upload/images/36/hiv-1%20large.jpg

Infected Lymph tissue:
http://immuneweb.xxmc.edu.cn/pic/HIV%20Infection%20in%20Human%20Lymph%20Tissue.jpg
http://immuneweb.xxmc.edu.cn/pic/HIV%20Infection%20in%20Human%20Lymph%20Tissue%203.jpg
http://immuneweb.xxmc.edu.cn/pic/HIV%20Infection%20in%20Human%20Lymph%20Tissue%202.jpg

Hmmm:
http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/gene-web/Lentiviral/HIV.jpg


74 posted on 06/14/2005 6:15:48 AM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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To: laredo44

Oh really? Please explain how two people, each without AIDS, who remain virgins until they wed, then remain faithful to each other throughout their marriage, could sexually contract AIDS from someone else.

Abstinence followed by faithfulness is 100% effective.


75 posted on 06/14/2005 8:19:38 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Oh really? Please explain how two people, each without AIDS, who remain virgins until they wed, then remain faithful to each other throughout their marriage, could sexually contract AIDS from someone else.

Sharing a needle with someone who has AIDS for one. Receiving a transfusion with infected blood for another. Accidentally pricking yourself with a needle used for drawing blood from an infected individual for a third. Getting into a fight with an HIV positive individual where blood is drawn. Should I continue?

Need a sexual method? Having sex with a spouse who has contracted AIDS, after marriage, in any of the manners described above, although heterosexual transmission is very difficult without sores or rough anal penetration.

76 posted on 06/14/2005 11:15:02 AM PDT by laredo44 (Liberty is not the problem)
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To: laredo44

And all of those are relatively rare exceptions, which would be noted by the couple as putting them at potential risk, and thus resulting in their testing or adopting additional precautions.

So amend my statement to: Abstinence combined with faithfulness is 99.95% effective against AIDS.


77 posted on 06/14/2005 12:09:08 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Darksheare
MikeKen said that AIDS and HIV are a hoax,

Actually there are a lot of people who believe this so MikeKen has lots of support for his position.

In my case I am still waiting for someone to provide a link to the definitive medical journal article that establishes the causality HIV=AIDS. Just because AIDS exists (no question about that) is not proof that it is caused by HIV. I take it as unproven until there is better data than I have been able to dig up. Just showing a photo of a virus or retrovirus doesn't prove that it is the cause of anything. You have to be able to apply Koch's Postulates and prove it the old fashioned way.

78 posted on 06/14/2005 2:27:07 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Abstinence combined with faithfulness is 99.95% effective against AIDS.

In fact, the odds of a middle class woman getting AIDS from a randomly selected middle class man off the street are much smaller than 00.05% but I doubt you'd know that. The odds for a man are even smaller.

Fact is, the spread of AIDS among middle-class, heterosexuals was so lied about in the early ninties, that there is almost no factual information now circulating among the general populace. According to projections, we should have had tens of millions of deaths by now. Of course we haven't, and the CDC knew we wouldn't but perpetuated the lie.

I grew up in New Jersey and every little kid heard stories about the Jersey Devil. Those stories had about as much truth as we get about AIDS.

79 posted on 06/14/2005 3:44:52 PM PDT by laredo44 (Liberty is not the problem)
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To: InterceptPoint

"Actually there are a lot of people who believe this so MikeKen has lots of support for his position."

And every single one of the people I've personally run across that believed that HAD AIDS/HIV and wanted to spread the joy.


80 posted on 06/14/2005 6:09:09 PM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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