Open note to Jim Nabors: Hey Gomer, not too many people here on FR are surprised.
Posted on 03/13/2014 10:50:42 AM PDT by massmike
A 46-year-old woman in Texas likely acquired HIV from her female partner in what health officials say is a rare case of female-to-female transmission of the virus.
The two women had been in a monogamous sexual relationship for six months. One was HIV-positive and had not taken medication for the human immunodeficiency virus in two years, according to a new case report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV is the virus that causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
The second woman had previously tested negative for HIV, but during the relationship, she became infected with the virus. This woman did not have other risk factors for HIV: she had not had heterosexual sex in 10 years, and she did not use injection drugs.
Reports of HIV transmission between two women are rare, and in previous cases, researchers were often unable to determine if another factor, such as injection drug use, had caused the infection.
Still, because HIV can be present in vaginal fluid and menstrual blood, transmission of the virus between two women is theoretically possible, the researchers said.
The report will be published tomorrow (March 14) in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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No thank you — I don’t need to know the how.
“One was HIV-positive and had not taken medication for the human immunodeficiency virus in two years, according to a new case report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV is the virus that causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
The second woman had previously tested negative for HIV, but during the relationship, she became infected with the virus. This woman did not have other risk factors for HIV: she had not had heterosexual sex in 10 years, and she did not use injection drugs. “
All it takes is one person and one act of unprotected sex.
Have unprotected sex with a person that has HIV....Winner!
>>The two women had been in a monogamous sexual relationship for six months.
Sounds like forever!
That is a strange statement. What is is supposed to do, quantify some sort of illusion of fidelity?
Have unprotected sex with a person that has HIV....Winner!
Lola
Exactly!
Open note to Jim Nabors: Hey Gomer, not too many people here on FR are surprised.
Arrest the infector for attempted murder.
Arrest the infectee for gross stupidity.
It’s another way to say “But, but , life is so unfair!!!”
“All it takes is one person and one act of unprotected sex.”
That’s a technically correct, buy highly misleading statement. “They” want us to believe that AIDS is an equal threat to everyone. The fact is that MSM (Men who have Sex with Men, in this case) are many times more likely to contract the disease, than heterosexuals, or even WSW. Hundreds of times more likely, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
“Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM))a represent approximately 2% of the United States population, yet are the population most severely affected by HIV. In 2010, young MSM (aged 13-24 years) accounted for 72% of new HIV infections among all persons aged 13 to 24, and 30% of new infections among all MSM. At the end of 2010, an estimated 489,121 (56%) persons living with an HIV diagnosis in the United States were MSM or MSM-IDU.”
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/gender/msm/facts/index.html
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Wow, a real page turner I am sure
Any subscribers here?
I wonder if Hallmark has a card for that?
They must be into scissoring.
Bad uh, clams.
... and the band played on.
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