Posted on 06/03/2006 3:08:12 PM PDT by pleikumud
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — It began quietly, when a statistical anomaly pointed to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men in California. No one imagined 25 years ago that AIDS would become the deadliest epidemic in history.
Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair.
Its spread was hastened by ignorance, prejudice, denial and the freedoms of the sexual revolution. Along the way from oddity to pandemic, AIDS changed they way people live and love.
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Wake me up when it approaches 99.9 million so I can get a beer to cry in.
A recent study has linked SIV in chimpanzees from the Kinshasa, Congo area as being the likely original animal source. Tribes in the area, hunting chimps for food, starting dying of AIDS as early as the 1930s. Only a few genetic changes were required to allow the SIV chimp virus to jump to humans and then become infectious between humans. The first verified case is a man from Kinshasa in 1959.
And doing the bone dance with Mister stinker.
I kinda disagree. If one even suggested quarantines, identifying and testing of all partners, etc., one was labeled a homophobe. Testing was done, maybe still is, by numbers, not names. The gay community raised an incredible stink when any real measures were brought up. At about this time, I was diagnosed with TB. I had broken some ribs coughing, and gotten an xray at Milwaukee General. They gave me pain pills and sent me home. The next day they called, and asked me to stop by to dicuss my xrays. Upon entering the hospital, I was escorted by a guard to the TB ward, and did not get out until 7 months later. My TB was diagnosed as atypical, and I probably caught it gardening. Not contagious. Lilies, who knew? Point being, TB is curable, AIDS ain't!
You don't suppose someone could be trying to play a game of aid-scam?
The new medicines we have today keeps aids patients alive longer and also healthier. These patients can continue to spread the disease as none of the medicine cures aids.
". . . one was labeled a homophobe."
Exactly. That's why proper behavior wasn't exercised, by the gay community. They had an "out" for precisely that reason.
As I understand it, some African men have a preference for "dry sex," in which the woman is not properly lubricated. Unfortunately this can lead to small tears in the delicate vaginal lining, which means the AIDS virus is more easily introduced into the bloodstream.
"May" reach 100 million.....murtha "may" be elected president someday......kerry "may" release his military records......michael moore "may" lose weight......
Perhaps this is one reason why the great religions of the world ALL condemn homosexuality.
In Africa they have lots of cleanliness issues.
So if couples are making whoopee with all kinds of soars over their bodies, your dry issue is only one of many causes.
Rash to rash contact passes Aids and there is lots of that festering in Africa.
Who are you talking to? I didn't use the word "may".
Gay sex = disease and death. Government should not endorse gay sex by legalizing gay marriage. The law should only recognize marriage between a man and a woman. Congress should view gay sex for what it is - a threat to public health.
Can't blame the gays on this one...these are mostly hetrosexuals getting it. Sorry to disappoint you. Maybe next time or another country. Silliness. I don't approve of homosexuality either, but at least I get my facts straight. There is a saying if you can't say something accurate, don't say anything at all...
sorry, i was referring to the headline...
My money is on Tomzz is a troll not yet discovered by the Viking kitties....March 2006?
O.K. No problem.
Michael Fumento predicted the African spread of AIDS in detail in his 1989 The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, one of the most censored books of modern times. It's still available, but not many local libraies or bookstores have it.
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