Rare AIDS Strain Is Very Aggressive, Study Says

New York Times ^ | 03-18-05 | MARC SANTORA

[Max in Utah]

Hey Cy! Come over and get this dude!

:-)

[null and void]

She's already here...

[ghitma]

Yea, these are the same jerks that demanded the bath houses be kept opened, but will no doubt blame Christians, Bush, Regan, conservatives and Republicans if this super infection takes off.

[jla]

It's disingenuous to compare the risk homos incur of being infected with the AIDS virus with the risk of getting in an accident on a motorcycle.
As it's been manifested, homosexual irresponsibility and outright contermpt for society has resulted in AIDS spreading into the hetero community.
Persons riding without a helmet will risk hurting only theirselves.

[null and void]

Related thread???

Japanese develop chewing gum that can 'enhance breasts'

[thombo]

OMG!I'm celibate too.Hey,maybe we could start a ping list for celibate Freepers?Any ideas?

[democrats_nightmare]

It definately has to be Bush's fault!! /sarcasm

[thombo]

Anus flavored gum?Shame on u null+void!Have a nice day:)

[null and void]

OK, put me on it..

[cyborg]

LOL thanks ;o)

[null and void]

Careful! We might both end up off the Celibate ping list!

[cyborg]

ROTFL yup you're right! :D

[null and void]

It wouldn't make a good bubblegum.

('cuz of the hole)...

[MonroeDNA]

I applaud and encourage gay men who do each other.

Sorry if you die.

Not.

[InterceptPoint]

On average, it takes 10 years to develop AIDS after infection, but some people develop AIDS after about 20 years, and others within a year or so.

What nonsense.

I defy anyone to point out a single example of a virus that functions in this manner. HIV does not cause AIDS. Period.

[null and void]

Epstien-Barr for one.

There are whole families of slow inapparent virii

[gidget7]

"Some gay activist groups also reacted skeptically, saying public health officials exploited the case to scare gay men into practicing safe sex."



And this is why we need to take steps to eradicate AIDS. The gays won't. We wouldn't allow the transmission of TB or small pox, or any other disease, we shouldn't with AIDS.

This mutation, and the fact that mutation happens very quickly, is making it very difficult for researchers to do anything. How long before it is transmitted in other ways, putting us all at risk.

In my opinion, we need to expose the left for their disregard for the transmission and silencing of health alerts regarding AIDS. They are putting the whole country at risk by their failure to address this.

All they talk about is the right of homosexuals to practice this deviant behavior regardless of the risk. If there were a disease that was transmitted by heterosexual sex almost exclusively, how do we think the WHO would handle it? You can bet all heterosexuals would be responsible in regard to protecting themselves and others! But homosexuals aren't, whether they don't have the mental capability or what, doesn't matter, they are not getting the information, they are not practicing safe sex, and they are not being helped by these PC policies that are in place. In fact, half the money allocated to AIDS research is funneled to activism.

We have to stop this horrible disease, before the ways it can be transmitted changes to affect us all.

[gidget7]

Well, don't know if the meth increases anything, or affects the virus itself. I do know, it lessens inhibitions. It enables the perverse to be even more perverse. I don't know ANY normal person, on drugs or not, that even COULD, have sex with 30 or more people in an 6-8 hour period, that is what the meth does for them.

[gidget7]

Sure, but can't you think of a heck of a lot easier ways to die, than this horrible disease??? I sure as heck can. No matter how much a person wishes death, to contract a disease of this magnitude is not the way.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

"It's disingenuous to compare the risk homos incur of being infected with the AIDS virus with the risk of getting in an accident on a motorcycle. As it's been manifested, homosexual irresponsibility and outright contempt for society has resulted in AIDS spreading into the hetero community. Persons riding without a helmet will risk hurting only theirselves."

Tell that to family members who have lost loved ones, or have had them permanently disabled. Or for that matter to the taxpayers who often end picking up the tab for the care of those injured by such behavior – it can and occasionally does cause causes enormous emotional and financial damage to families and society.

The way I see it engaging in either unsafe sex (straight or gay) and participating in high-risk sports without reasonable protective gear have at least two things in common: depending on your circumstances either be extremely inconsiderate and selfish acts, and the people engaging in both often have at lot of same ways of rationalizing this fact away.

How do I know this?

Because I used to do the same, and spent a lot of time in the company of others like myself - when I was a young man I loved to look down at the ground from a hang-glider or feel the wind I my hair on a motorcycle, I’m married to a woman who was an avid on and off road rider, and when we were young we had plenty of rationalizations for taking these sorts of risks irrespective of the emotional, financial and occasionally physical harm they might cause others.

Now that I’m older, and some of my friends and acquaintances are dead or maimed, they don’t seem so reasonable.

And this isn’t primarily the result of an intellectual understanding, it’s an emotional shift, and nobody argued me into it (or could have) - like a lot of people who used to enjoy such risks there just came a day when I put a foot on the kick-starter and realized that what I was feeling was at least as much apprehension as anticipation – that maybe it was just not worth it.

Now, I don’t go around telling other people to not to fly, or to wear a helmet if they ride.

Because I know that they are making a decision that appears at the time – to them - rational for their circumstances.

That with maturity and experience, many of them will come to perceive the balance of risk and satisfaction differently.

But that some of them never will: that as long as they are able they will be getting on their bike after a few beers or launching into really marginal conditions.

And I don’t see the evidence that that there is something fundamentally different about the mental state of someone who engages in consensual unsafe sex and someone who engages in other forms of high-risk behavior, it seems to me even in the most extreme cases - gays who deliberately court the risk of infection - has plenty of parallels in my experience, for example the “suicidal” risk taking some hang gliders.

That it's all just crazy human risk-taking behavior, straight or gay.