Viral Hepatitis is associated with high-risk IV drug use and sexual activity. Maybe Arafat didn't get AIDS, but had the Hep instead... either way, he's gayer than the lollipop guild.
"Viral Hepatitis is associated with high-risk IV drug use and sexual activity."
Yo, hey, dude: it's also associated with military service in the 60s and 70s.
Vets have Hep C at a rate estimated at TEN TIMES the population at large, and not from drug use or sexual activity, either.
As a matter of fact, normal sexual activity between healthy men and women is a very poor way to transmit Hep C. Sharing toothbrushes is more dangerous.
Risk factors include contact with the blood of the wounded or injured, or even the blood on a dirty razor in the barber shop...improperly sterilized dental instruments...accidental needle sticks in a medical context...gamma globulin shots...assembly-line airgun vaccinations...and, of course, contaminated plasma or blood.
The perception that it's a disease of junkies and the depraved can only hinder the thousands (or is it millions?) of vets who were infected in the line of duty from getting some long-delayed justice from Uncle Sam.
Whatever Arafat had, he's dead.
And dead is the best thing he could be.