Posted on 11/26/2025 9:52:40 AM PST by fwdude
bout two years ago, an HIV outbreak was first identified in Penobscot County, Maine, home of Bangor. In recent weeks, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed another case, bringing the total of new HIV diagnoses in the cluster to 30.
Of note, 29 of those people were coinfected with hepatitis C virus; 29 reported injection drug use within a year of their HIV diagnoses; 27 have been unhoused within a year of diagnoses; 20 were linked to care within 30 days of diagnoses; and 16 of the 27 people currently living in Maine were virally suppressed at their last test.
The outbreak has been fueled by the Trump administration’s war against homelessness and drug use—local harm reduction programs were shuttered, and a homeless encampment has been cleared.
(Excerpt) Read more at poz.com ...
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Collins is a liberal, regardless of party, and shes been an installed fixture there for decades. Maine has been a liberal progressive place for a good while.
Hey Mainers...stop b f’ing, stop sharing needles and stop being self-destructive nitwits. Or don’t and get various illnesses and maybe die.
::These people are shamelessly ignorant.::
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Ignorance could possibly be excused. These “journalists” are evil. They are counting on having an uninformed populace believing their lies.
About 1.2 million people are living with HIV in the United States, and it’s estimated that about 13% of them don’t know they are positive. What’s more, nearly 40% of new HIV cases are transmitted by people who don’t they are HIV positive.
they don’t care, we don’t care..............................
HIV is a decidedly “gay”-centric disease. So the stats on 1.2 million people living with HIV is pretty much defined by homosexual men, or those who cavort with them.
They try to spin the “Undetectable = Untransmittable” nonsense, which doesn’t work when 13% of those infected don’t know they are infectious. And prospective sex partners have no real idea how much veracity there is to someone’s ‘undetectable’ claim, or if they even know they’re ‘undetectable.’ You’re only as ‘undetectable’ as your last blood test, and that could have been months ago.
The fact is that thousands of people a year STILL contract HIV unwittingingly and (mostly) involuntarily, bug chasers excluded.
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