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It is really very simple. HIV has a latency period when there are not enough antibodies to be detected in the blood. Gays, bisexuals and iv drug abusers have the highest percentage of HIV infection. Statistically you have a greater chance of contracting Aids from blood of any of the above.

To put it simply you need blood to live. You have two choices. The first bag of blood is from a hetrosexual and the blood has been tested to be HIV free. The second bag of blood is from a gay and the blood has also tested HIV free. However if the second bag of blood is from someone that has been recently infected it will not have enough antibodies in it to test as HIV positive even though it has the HIV virus in it.

Which bag will you choose to run in your veins or the veins of your daughter or son or wife?

This is a late post to my post. I work as a hospital pharmacist VA hospital... Although rare I have seen this exact tragedy. One of our patients needed blood due to a medical emergency while he was in San Francisco. He was straight. He was given the blood he needed and all was well for years. All was well until he was diagnosed with aids.

If anyone should have been angry at the world it would have been this gentleman. He was gracious and courteous to the doctors and nurses until his death. I have also seen patients that have caught this disease by choice of their life style. Some are gracious as the above patient. Many are are obscene in their anger against those that are caring for them. I have seen instances of these patients deliberately trying to infect their health care workers but in honesty this is rare but it is real.

Choices in life have consequences. I choose to fly gliders at their limits of structural failure less 15%. If I make a mistake and pull a wing off it is totally my error and responsibility and my life insurance company will not be pleased. Society owes me nothing because I screwed up and pulled a wing off. Society owes nothing to groups whom life style puts them in danger of death by aids. In fact they owe my patient as their life style killed him just because he needed blood in San Francisco.

He was still sexually active and monogamous. Most fortunately his wife tested HIV negative. They lived two blocks down the street from me. I did not know them in my neighborhood. I knew him as a patient.

He was a nice man. He did not deserve what happened to him. He was a nice man.