Posted on 10/24/2008 7:38:36 AM PDT by Sopater
NORMANDY, Mo. — Students at a suburban St. Louis high school headed to the gymnasium for HIV testing this week after an infected person told health officials as many as 50 teenagers might have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS.
Officials refused to give details on who the person was or how the students at Normandy High School might have been exposed, but the district is consulting with national AIDS organizations as it tries to minimize the fallout and prevent the infection — and misinformation — from spreading.
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This is just another reason why, for public health reasons, we need to quarantine the homos on their own island. I propose Rhode Island.
This story is getting to be just about as silly as API’s Michelle Obama story. A bunch of kids “might” have been “exposed”, but we can’t tell you what we mean by “exposed” and we can’t tell you whether the source of the “exposure” was a student, teacher, staff member, parent, random stranger unaffiliated with the school, etc. The funniest part is the parents saying they’re thinking of pulling their kid out of the school now that they’ve got the shocking news that their kid “could have been exposed to AIDS” there. Parents, anything your kid was doing that could have “exposed” him/her to AIDS at this school is rooted in your kid’s behavior and will follow him/her to any school.
What makes you think this is about “homos”? It may have been a bunch of kids sharing needles as they shot up heroin.
Uh........Peter Duesburg, is that you?
I hope you're not a real "Doc".
>> Students at a suburban St. Louis high school headed to the gymnasium for HIV testing this week after an infected person told health officials as many as 50 teenagers might have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS.
Must’ve been some party.
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I really can't think of anything, other than some sort of giant high school orgy or massive IV drug use, that could realistically expose this many kids to AIDS. Maybe piercing or homemade tattooing, but that would be a real anomaly that so many kids went to one guy for such services.
I have a feeling this will end up to be hysteria- AIDS is pretty tough to catch, all things considered.
Go sell crazy somewhere else. Rational people are going to ignore your quackery.
So just for the record and for these morons in the high school, MAGIC JOHNSON IS STILL ALIVE YOU STUPID DICKS!
With proper management of lifestyle, diet, exercise and medication, an HIV-infected person can stave off the onset of AIDS for years or decades. Magic Johnson is alive because he is a rich, disciplined athlete who has done everything in his power to keep his HIV-infection from turngin into full-blown AIDS.
I haven't slept with one YET.
Always looking on the bright side.
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LOL!
Free Lazama... never mind.
lolz
Take heart. There's somebody out there for every one [shutter].
Condoms are pushed as an HIV preventive measure. Even if condoms do not rupture, the micro fissures therein are approx 10 microns wide. Whereas the AIDs virus is 1 micron in diameter, or so I've read. Not a reassuring thought.
I moved to St. Louis 10 years ago and didn’t do my homework on locations and my wife (no kids) found a house in a little village down the road from this high school. This school is next to University of Missouri / St. Louis. 50 years ago this area was a premier area to live in St. Louis. It is the pits now. Thank God I was able to get out of the area.
I hate to get in the middle of this, but what we now know as AIDS, as I understand it, existed in the central trade routes in Africa for centuries. It was called "slim disease" and was a big mystery. It was "exported" if you will to the west by an American who had a little too much fun in central Africa. This guy did not lead a clean lifestyle, which is how it spread in specific groups.
The way the Normandy story is being presented, not just this article, but on all the various news outlets here, it sounds like it was something that happened at school. Could be anything - gym, a lab, nosebleed. Right now, they're just trying to keep people from panicking.
Wow, this is scary stuff. The more you think about it, the harder it is to find a reason to support public education.
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