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Rare AIDS Strain Is Very Aggressive, Study Says
New York Times ^ | 03-18-05 | MARC SANTORA

Posted on 03/18/2005 6:21:08 AM PST by Mother Abigail

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To: jla

I cannot fathom how diabolical, evil and utterly selfish these people are. Sane humans would not make remarks such as this.


Agreed!


What Homosexuals Say About Homosexuals - Is This Gay Behavior Sick?

61 posted on 03/18/2005 7:24:50 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: null and void

The article says that it took somewhere between 4 and 20 months from contracting it to developing AIDS, as opposed to 10 to 20 years for the more familiar strain of HIV.

"public health officials exploited the case to scare gay men into practicing safe sex." So, if they could mount a large 'fear' campaign to keep the majority of gay and heteros much more mindful in taking precautions for a year and a half, they can greatly limit the spread. I just don't seem them being able to eliminate it this way since it wouldn't be feasible to expect anything near 100% compliance. Eventually complacency would reemerge as would it's spreading. So really, the campaingn would probably just buy some more time before it spread again.

Did anyone see that thread a day or two ago about the Chinese testing a vaccine? It was very vague.


62 posted on 03/18/2005 7:26:09 AM PST by Sax
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To: little jeremiah

tee hee hee...


63 posted on 03/18/2005 7:26:41 AM PST by null and void (A 35 mm and a .45 cal. Hard combo to beat...)
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To: null and void

that's tasteless, no...wait, it's not, it tastes like...gross.


64 posted on 03/18/2005 7:27:18 AM PST by Sax
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To: ItsOurTimeNow
I have THE cure For Aids.


After time consuming scientific research, breaking the Nucleic acid down into the most simplistic particles, I have come up with this formula equation


Abstinence + marriage + lifelong monogamous relationship= CURE FOR AIDS
65 posted on 03/18/2005 7:27:23 AM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: little jeremiah


Viruses mutate. What people don't understand about AIDS is, that every HIV infected person has a different strain. Let say you have two Aids infected individuals - they should not have sex with one another. They have different strains.




66 posted on 03/18/2005 7:29:33 AM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: null and void

Who knows, it might work.


67 posted on 03/18/2005 7:29:55 AM PST by little jeremiah (Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
>I have noticed a lot more homeless people and contrails too

Do you see unmarked
black helicopters
come out
of the contrails and

land to drop off the
"homeless" people where you live?
It's every day here . . .

68 posted on 03/18/2005 7:29:55 AM PST by theFIRMbss ([coughs])
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To: Max in Utah

"This is just more proof that we should have quarantined all the HIV-positive people starting about 25 years ago."

That approach seems to have been effective with leprosy.


69 posted on 03/18/2005 7:30:52 AM PST by Ben Hecks
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To: L98Fiero
AIDS - It's wicked deadly when money is being requested but practically non-transmittable when social acceptance is requested.

So true! I love that statement!

70 posted on 03/18/2005 7:31:06 AM PST by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: Mother Abigail
As I said on an earlier thread:

WooHoo!
Too bad this little bug didn't appear years ago.

I've had a lot of genetic defective homos as bosses and clients.

The world will be a better place without them.

71 posted on 03/18/2005 7:32:18 AM PST by benjaminjjones
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Too bad there's too many exceptions to that equation. That reminded me of this Bruce Willis movie quote:

"It was an accident? You tripped and accidently stuck your d*** in my wife"


72 posted on 03/18/2005 7:36:08 AM PST by Sax
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To: jjmcgo
Hey, glass houses! "Extra redundancy?"

Yes, I'm throwing lithic stones at my glass house made of vitrified silica product.

73 posted on 03/18/2005 7:41:56 AM PST by Max in Utah (By their works you shall know them.)
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To: Max in Utah
Clastic. Pure pyroclastic...
74 posted on 03/18/2005 7:43:10 AM PST by null and void (A 35 mm and a .45 cal. Hard combo to beat...)
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To: Max in Utah

I'm way out of my league here.


75 posted on 03/18/2005 7:51:34 AM PST by jjmcgo
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To: null and void
Pure pyroclastic...

Thanks, I'm flowing pretty heavily this month.

76 posted on 03/18/2005 7:51:58 AM PST by Max in Utah (By their works you shall know them.)
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To: jla
I cannot fathom how diabolical, evil and utterly selfish these people are. Sane humans would not make remarks such as this.

Men - straight or gay - especially young men, and especially young men in groups are apt to engage in risk-taking and denial.

For example it’s easy to find straight men whole will tell you that gay men willing to risk unprotected sex because it feels “better” or “mote natural” than wearing a condom are morons - but who themselves go for motorcycle rides with their friends sans helmets for pretty much the same reasons. Sometimes such riders form groups to support their right to take such a risk, accuse those who look on their risk-taking with disfavor of having hidden agendas, and complain that safety advocates are using accounts of particularly gruesome accidents to scare people into using helmets.

This isn’t gay behavior, it’s human behavior.
77 posted on 03/18/2005 7:52:30 AM PST by M. Dodge Thomas (More of the same, only with more zeros on the end.)
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To: jjmcgo

Hey, don't be discouraged-- the Sox made it didn't they?


78 posted on 03/18/2005 7:53:40 AM PST by Max in Utah (By their works you shall know them.)
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To: Max in Utah

You win.

I know better that to argue with something that bleeds of a whole week, and doesn't die...


79 posted on 03/18/2005 7:54:27 AM PST by null and void (A 35 mm and a .45 cal. Hard combo to beat...)
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To: ItsOurTimeNow

"Why are the PC police so afraid to state the obvious?"

http://www.techcentralstation.com/030305B.html

"The first kind of political correctness to take a hit is, interestingly, a p.c. of the religious right: creationism."

SNIP

"The second political correctness is more familiar and more immediately deadly. Two decades ago, the late Randy Shilts, himself gay, decried the gay community's sometimes reckless disregard for the lethal consequences of AIDS. Shilts knew what he was talking about; he died of the disease himself. For a while, in the 90s, it seemed as if AIDS was reasonably under control, in the US at least. Infection and death rates among educated white gay men -- the folks whose illnesses would be most likely to attract attention -- plummeted."

SNIP

"The third form of political correctness that's been undercut by the AIDS superbug is the breezy entitlement-y presumption that Uncle Sam will cover all bets, no matter how foolish they may be. One veteran of the AIDS war told The New York Times, "I have spoken to young kids, sometimes here, who say, 'If I get it, it's no big deal. I can just take a pill.'" And of course, oftentimes, it's the government paying for that pill; AIDS costs the taxpayers around $10 billion a year."


80 posted on 03/18/2005 7:56:01 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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