Posted on 08/28/2008 8:01:49 PM PDT by neverdem
The virus that causes AIDS is spreading in New York City at three times the national rate — an incidence of 72 new infections for every 100,000 people, compared with 23 per 100,000 nationally — according to a study released on Wednesday by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
The findings, based on a new formula developed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, estimated that 4,762 New Yorkers contracted H.I.V. in 2006, the most precise estimate the city had ever offered.
But the city stressed that because the method of estimating infections was new, it could not be said definitively whether the number of new infections in the city had increased or decreased from previous years.
Blacks, and men who have sex with other men, are the groups at greatest risk of contracting H.I.V., the study found. A summary of the new data:
¶Men accounted for 76 percent of new H.I.V. infections and women for 25 percent. (The figures exceed 100 percent because of rounding.)
¶Blacks made up 46 percent of the newly infected; Hispanics, 32 percent; and whites, 21 percent. (Figures for other racial or ethnic groups were not provided.)
¶Those under age 20 made up 4 percent of the newly infected; those 20 to 29 years old, 24 percent; those 30 to 39 years old, 29 percent; those 40 to 49 years old, 29 percent; and those 50 and older, 15 percent.
¶Sex between men was the main cause in 50 percent of new infections; high-risk heterosexual sex in 22 percent; intravenous drug use in 8 percent; and unknown or uncertain causes in 18 percent.
Manhattan accounted for 35 percent of new infections; Brooklyn, 26 percent; the Bronx, 19 percent; and Queens, 17 percent.
As the health department has repeatedly noted, gay minority...
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We know what to blame, don’t we? Sex in the City, of course Liberals will never blame their own ideals for the cause of human pain.
Anyone seen the TV show “Sex and the City?”
It should be “Sex disease, rape, disappointment, unwanted pregnancy, despression, abortion and the City.”
This is news?
So, some mathematician help me out here:
With the current rate of spread of the AIDS infections in New Yawk, how long will it be before they are all dead and we could then burn the place down? /S
You live in a beehive, you share with the bees.
I’m guessing that the proportion of gay people and/or intravenous drug users in Manhattan is three times the proportion in the rest of the country.
Doublespeak alert! What’s with this “at risk” language?
Last I checked, people living otherwise healthy lives aren’t struck down with AIDS. Yet it gets the money, attention, and celebrity noise instead of diseases like cancer that people get regardless of how they live.
Let’s just be honest and replace “at risk individuals” with “risk-taking individuals”.
Obama voters.
15% of the population accounts for 46% of the infections.
What's wrong with this picture?
A year ago I went to Salt Lake City and was very surprised at the number of homosexuals in that city.
At Buca Di Beppo the waiter there explained it to me.
He said if you were gay and lived in some little conservative town within a thousand miles of Salt Lake you’d not feel comfortable and would likely move to a city where you’ll be more accepted. Well N.Y. certainly has attracted more than its share of gays.
Thus higher aids rates.
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