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To: John Valentine
Unfortunately I don't have my references with me as I write, so I can't provide references or quotes.

If you don't have anything to say, maybe you shouldn't say anything. Healthcare personnel infected with HIV were 56 documented and 138 possible as of June 2000. Do you need the reference? Here AIDing Disease, comment# 16. Forget about them.

How do you account for the mortality of all of those infected by blood transfusions and blood products prior to the use of AZT? How do you account for the reduction of mortality in transfusion and blood product recipients since blood was screened for HIV antibodies?

HIV and the Blood Supply: An Analysis of Crisis Decisionmaking (1995)

How do you account for the decrease in mother to child transmission at childbirth, i.e. vertical transmission, with the use of antiretroviral drugs?

59 posted on 05/27/2006 11:59:28 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

You seem to be informed, but at the same time you consistently refuse to listen.

I never denied that healthcare workers have been infected with HIV. It happens all the time. To what purpose do you regale me with this irrelevant fact?

Also, I have never claimed that antivirals don't work. I only point out that they do far more harm than good, since I do not beleive that there is a demonstrated causal link between HIV and AIDS.

Your point about a reduction in mortality in blood recipients is typically obtuse. Obviously, screening of blood donors will result in a reduction or elimination of HIV positive blood products and therefore its transmission to recipients. Naturally, there will be a reduction in mortality under such conditions. Thank God that Doctors aren't giving antivirals to non-HIV positive individuals.


61 posted on 05/27/2006 5:16:49 PM PDT by John Valentine
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