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To: babygene

Wow. Just Wow. Ignorant advice like yours does as much damage as the diseases we are trying to fight. One can argue merits of quarantine or not, but you are dead (and I do mean dead) wrong on how HIV/AIDS is spread. When you see a dying little kid I hope you dont ask how the anal sex was. Innocents can and do get the disease. And straight women do get it from bi or drug using husbands, and sometimes find out about their husbands side activities when they are diagnosed.....


125 posted on 07/28/2014 5:32:29 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

“Innocents can and do get the disease. And straight women do get it from bi or drug using husbands, and sometimes find out about their husbands side activities when they are diagnosed.....”

What you say is unfortunately true. Women do get it from men sometimes. However not at a rate that would support an epidemic. Children also get it from an infected mother.

And that’s doubly sad, because men are the carriers of this disease and they almost never get it from a woman. (unless they share a needle with her)

If you are a woman in a long term sexual relationship with an infected man, you will likely get infected eventually. I know a woman who was infected by her X-husband.

The infected man almost certainly didn’t get it from a woman through sex even if he sleeps around. It’s almost never transmitted in that direction. He got it from another man or from a needle.

However, the infection rate between men and women is not high enough to cause an epidemic in the heterosexual population. And, in the thirty years that Aids has been out there, it has never took off in the heterosexual population. And it won’t for the reasons I stated.

That said, it is tragic when an innocent women or child gets it. Life sometimes isn’t fair.


128 posted on 07/28/2014 6:41:38 AM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: Mom MD; babygene

The blood supply and especially the FFP used for hemophiliacs were out there spreading it as well.


129 posted on 07/28/2014 7:04:08 AM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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