Remember back when the AIDS Virus started spreading? Folks were assured it could only be spread by homosexuals in explicit sex acts. Oops.
It's hard to imagine that once one gets exposed to a disease, it ever totally disappears. It goes into remission.
“Remember back when the AIDS Virus started spreading? Folks were assured it could only be spread by homosexuals in explicit sex acts. Oops.”
That’s pretty much he most common way it is spread. That and infected needles.
Back in the 1980’s the CDC was pushing the idea that it was very easy to spread sexually and that it would break out into the heterosexual population. They were trying to get additional research money by scaring the general population.
“It’s hard to imagine that once one gets exposed to a disease, it ever totally disappears.”
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I was exposed to TB in 1937.
I never got the disease but still test positive with the TB tine test.
Astonishing to me.
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That wasn't the story at all.
We were told it could be spread simply through sex, and as it was presented, nearly randomly, almost depending on wind direction.
It took years before the homosexual and dirty needles angle was allowed in the news.