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AIDS Toll May Reach 100 Million in Africa
Fox News/AP ^ | Saturday, June 03, 2006

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; aids; california; deathtoll; disease; gay; hiv; sex
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To: pleikumud

Wake me up when it approaches 99.9 million so I can get a beer to cry in.


21 posted on 06/03/2006 3:42:28 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: pleikumud
Too bad we have to watch them die rather than "impose our values on them". Abstaining from sex until marriage then not having sex outside of marriage is fantastically effective at preventing AIDS
22 posted on 06/03/2006 3:44:14 PM PDT by Jaysun (Failure has gone to their heads.)
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To: operation clinton cleanup
I don't imagine it now. Other epidemics killed far more.

Communism killed more.
23 posted on 06/03/2006 3:44:53 PM PDT by Jaysun (Failure has gone to their heads.)
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To: tomzz

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.


24 posted on 06/03/2006 3:45:38 PM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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To: pleikumud
Its spread was hastened by ignorance, prejudice, denial, freedoms of the sexual revolution

And doing the bone dance with Mister stinker.

25 posted on 06/03/2006 3:47:05 PM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: synbad600

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!


26 posted on 06/03/2006 3:58:34 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: neutrino
Interesting, is it not, that despite all the numbers tossed about, the population continues to go up.

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.

27 posted on 06/03/2006 4:04:21 PM PDT by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

". . . 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.


28 posted on 06/03/2006 4:04:33 PM PDT by synbad600
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To: A CA Guy

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.


29 posted on 06/03/2006 4:08:39 PM PDT by Fairview
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To: texastoo

"May" reach 100 million.....murtha "may" be elected president someday......kerry "may" release his military records......michael moore "may" lose weight......


30 posted on 06/03/2006 4:09:54 PM PDT by RacerX1128
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To: pleikumud

Perhaps this is one reason why the great religions of the world ALL condemn homosexuality.


31 posted on 06/03/2006 4:14:04 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Memo to GOP: Don't ask me for any more money until you secure our Southern border.)
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To: Fairview

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.


32 posted on 06/03/2006 4:14:09 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: pleikumud
But no run on coffins, apparently, and the rivers aren't clogged with bodies.
33 posted on 06/03/2006 4:15:04 PM PDT by caveat emptor
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To: RacerX1128

Who are you talking to? I didn't use the word "may".


34 posted on 06/03/2006 4:16:00 PM PDT by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: Names Ash Housewares
Strange beliefs that virgin girls should have sex the first time with strange magic men is one of the more extreme ones.

And the tribal wife idea needs to end to. Gee whiz - maybe that old repressive Bible was on to something and maybe not all ideas are equal (except in Hollywood).
35 posted on 06/03/2006 4:18:33 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: pleikumud

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...


36 posted on 06/03/2006 4:22:25 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: texastoo

sorry, i was referring to the headline...


37 posted on 06/03/2006 4:25:05 PM PDT by RacerX1128
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To: gotribe

My money is on Tomzz is a troll not yet discovered by the Viking kitties....March 2006?


38 posted on 06/03/2006 4:25:20 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Illegal Aliens....STFU!)
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To: RacerX1128

O.K. No problem.


39 posted on 06/03/2006 4:26:52 PM PDT by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: Zeroisanumber
".....most of the victims of the disease in Africa are heterosexual."

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.

40 posted on 06/03/2006 4:32:23 PM PDT by skeptoid
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