Posted on 09/01/2018 5:04:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A cluster of eight people in North Seattle, described as heterosexuals, drug users, and recently homeless, have been diagnosed with HIV infections since February, and health officials worry their cases could represent a new pattern of transmission for the virus that has been in steep decline.
Officials suspect changes in drug use are to blame.
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The diagnoses are among 19 HIV cases reported so far this year among heterosexuals in King County. For all of last year, that number was seven, according to the health agency. It has averaged 10 for the past decade. Featured Video
Gay and bisexual men are most at risk to contract HIV in Washington state. Statewide, 461 cases were diagnosed each year from 2012-2016, on average, according to state Department of Health statistics. Of those cases, an average of 290 each year were among gay and bisexual men.
Duchin said transmission links among four of the eight people of this cluster have been identified. He said investigators had not tied a specific location to the HIV transmission, other than North Seattle.
At least half of the people in the cluster are receiving medical care. Duchin said health officials are working to make sure syringe-exchange and condom programs are meeting demand. The local health department also is increasing testing and outreach to homeless people.
“If there are a number of cases that we’re not aware of, or if this is the tip of the iceberg, things can get more complicated,” he said.
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Lemme guess...a new,particularly groovy,bath house has recently opened in Seattle.
It’s sad that so many gay men and IV drug users have died and that many more will die from this disease. Avoiding HIV is easy, but far too many parents are doing a disservice to their children by failing to teach self-restraint and basic morals, and the schools are even worse.
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You can't make this stuff up.
Too bad they don't show this level of concern for tax paying citizens during something like a flu outbreak.
Claiming it’s recently homeless, heterosexual drug users. Nah, it’s the Amish again.
“I’m not gay.. but 20 bucks is 20 bucks”...?
Ben Dover is in town ,LOL
“Health officials, worried about outbreak, investigate HIV cluster in North Seattle”
Tsk, tsk.
Statistical smoke and mirrors.
Heterosexual drug users. Duh, they didn’t get it because of heterosexual contact, it was drugs. So why is the “heterosexual” included? To obscure the fact that the only heteros who get it are drug users or women having sex with gay men.
If liberals wanted to stop the transmission of AIDS (they don’t care) they would admit to how it is really passed.
Dead gay men is preferable to losing votes. That’s the liberal morality.
But they said North Seattle, and that's blue collar and white collar territory. My guess is that this has something to do with the homeless people living under I-5 overpasses or in the medians of certain streets.
“Cluster” seems like the right word. But I think they left off the suffix.
Heh!
It mutated, will bring on a whole new deadly level of the epidemic. Cue Obama and Bush for the concert fundraisers.
If I were single & not married now I would be content with a cat & a dog.
I don’t see how that invalidates what I said.
Homeless drug users are not getting AIDS because they are heterosexual. The apparent attempt of the authorities is to suggest that heterosexual contact is a serious statistic in the spread of AIDS.
The left has been promulgating the myth of the heterosexual AIDS epidemic for over 30 years. And it has not happened.
I’ve known victims of AIDS, we are doing them no favors lying about how it is spread.
Yup. With the The Larry Sinclair-obama-Rahm theme...
Best advice?
Stop putting anything in your butt.
That is correct!!!
The butt hole is exit only :)
Sick bastard. Just kidding.
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