Posted on 02/25/2005 7:39:06 AM PST by Callahan
BOSTON - The New York man who sparked fears of a powerful new strain of HIV had drug-fueled, unprotected sex with more than 100 men in the months before his diagnosis, a top researcher said yesterday.
Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in Manhattan will unveil today a case study of the unidentified man, who his team believes may harbor a mutant strain of the deadly virus.
Skeptical AIDS researchers from around the world believe the case is isolated and not the beginning of a new epidemic.
In a preview of the study, Ho said the new strain is resistant to 19 of 20 drugs used to fight the HIV virus and becomes full-blown AIDS in months, not years. The development led city health officials to send out a dire warning earlier this month.
"We don't know if this is an isolated case or if there are more cases out there," Ho told the Daily News.
The victim, who's in his mid-40s, participated in wild orgies fueled by crystal meth before becoming sick, Ho said.
City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said yesterday health workers have been "working to identify [the man's] sexual partners, and urge them to be tested."
But he declined to say how many of those partners they'd been able to reach.
Despite the fears of a superbug, other experts have pointed out that rapid progression of HIV is not new, nor is resistance to multiple drugs.
Instead of being a new strain, the virus could have rapidly developed into full-blown AIDS because of something unique to the patient, said Dr. Douglas Richman of University of California at San Diego.
But even officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have acknowledged the case is alarming.
I realize this and these people should be punished for this no doubt. Just cause I think we should pray for these people doesn't mean I don't want something done about it!
I agree!
Of course, it would be politically incorrect to quarantine them! What is sad if this was some other Virus not caused by mostly homosexual acts we would have already quartined the people who have it and would have obliterated the Virus!
"I continue to ask my democrat acquaintences why they are so enamored with this life style and the people who perpetrate it..."
I don't worry so much about it anymore, it is a self correcting problem. Gays and leftists celebrate death, and the more they celebrate the quicker tey are bred out of the system.
Well, if a heterosexual wanted to have psychotically promiscuous and anonymous anal sex with 30 people all at once, they would certainly need something to inhibit the natural God given shame they would naturally feel at such abhorrent acts.
Why don't these people cry out to keep their pants on. They act worse than animals and wonder why these things happen.
I really don't feel sorry for people who know that they are engaging in a reckless activity like this and achive the known result.
If you jump off a 200 ft Skyscraper, what the heck do you think will happen?
Its the same thing. These gays known what will happen but do it anyway.
And these freaks talk about marriage?
The kick in the pants is that people of death row get appeal after appeal for the stupidist reasons. This case they want to destroy her without appeal. However, it seems like something is finally going to happen in the right direction.
"No man, freedom didn’t fail! Now we have freedom and responsibility. It's a very groovy time, baby."
~Austin Powers
=^)
Thomas Jefferson knew freedom could never work unless the populace have a moral underpinning. Otherwise degeneration occurs. That is what we have today.
Well, gay men (and all of Africa) know.... and they still don't change.
Obviously it is a CIA plot to introduce super-AIDS into the gay community...
Very true. However, freedom cannot require morality... so where do we go from here? The NEXT "Founding Fathers" had better be some incredibly wise people, because topping the group from 1776 will be a tall order!
I am convinced that it is demonic. And some of the SSAD's know that it is demonic. Yet, to paraphrase a Rolling Stones song, their attitude is "I know I got demons hanging on me but I like it". Something like Romans 1, being turned over to a depraved spirit.
It is not supposed to be required, it is supposed to be ingrained and the underpinning of all else.
As soon as the Government gets involved, its over. The government can not dictate morality to people. What a joke that would be.
Our forefathers were so much more enlightened than we are because they accepted the truth of things, not the idealistic nonsense that comes out of do gooders' mouths that don't reflect reality.
Dr Evil: "There's nothing more pathetic than an aging hipster."
Exactly... so... how does one found a nation of limited government that respects the rights of the individual when the individuals themselves are not typically a moral lot? And if that cannot be done:
1. what replaces it?
and B. Where do we go to form our own America II?
Our forefathers were so much more enlightened than we are because they accepted the truth of things, not the idealistic nonsense that comes out of do gooders' mouths that don't reflect reality.
"Idealism is neither enlightened nor enlightenment"... I think I may have my new tagline!
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