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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; aids; california; deathtoll; disease; gay; hiv; sex
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To: King Prout
While infectious diseases don't "care" about morality or anything else, the above "portrayal" is absolutely true: those who have contracted HIV through rampant promiscuity, odd sexual practices, and IV drug abuse bought their tickets and are unworthy of much in the way of pity...

What a horrible thing to say, you...you...hater! (breaking into tears)

/professional AIDS cash scrounger mode

41 posted on 06/03/2006 4:40:57 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Twenty years in the Navy. Never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Upon entering the hospital, I was escorted by a guard to the TB ward, and did not get out until 7 months later.

Wow! How long ago was that? Does this still happen today?

42 posted on 06/03/2006 4:45:29 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: GATOR NAVY

anyone who since (I'll be generous) 1988 has contracted HIV through promiscuity, odd sex, or needles has bought the ride he has received. period. paragraph. end of story. I have pity for those who get infected through other, non behaviorally-related, methods, but I shall not squander my concern on foolish risk-takers getting a full set of lumps - be they sodomites, junkies, smokers, "rooftop runners", "human shields", etc...


43 posted on 06/03/2006 4:48:23 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: AmericaUnited

It was about 35+ years ago. I don't know if it still goes on. Really screwed up my life. And I wasn't even contagious!


44 posted on 06/03/2006 4:51:29 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: pleikumud

Yep, and after 100 it'll hit 200, yawn.


45 posted on 06/03/2006 4:53:13 PM PDT by gilor (Pull the wool over your own eyes!)
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To: A CA Guy

In Africa I hear it isn't as much a gay sex issue at all.

You heard wrong.

The transmission of aids is overwhelmingly by sexual contact.

It is relatively difficult to contract as a male during heterosexual relations.

Males, nonetheless are the primary communicators of the disease.

They contract it by anal intercourse with other males.

They then spread the disease to everyone with whom they have relations.


46 posted on 06/03/2006 4:53:43 PM PDT by TFMcGuire (Either you are an American, or you are a liberal)
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To: pleikumud

A lot of Africans get AIDS because of the way they have sex. The males want to "think" that they are having sex with a virgin. They will put things in the vagina of the women to increase friction to simulate the "feel" of a virgin. This causes bleeding and thus the transmission of the disease among heterosexuals.


47 posted on 06/03/2006 4:57:22 PM PDT by LetsRok
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To: gotribe

I had to read that twice. You get aids from eating monkeys.

How bizarre these theories are.

Unless of course monkeys are not monkeys.

One contracts aids by promiscuous behavior or contact, direct or indirect, with someone who has been promiscuous.

This disease is one more STD and one more wakeup call to men that When God instituted marriage and fidelity inside and outside marriage, He knew what He was talking about.



Sorry


48 posted on 06/03/2006 4:59:20 PM PDT by TFMcGuire (Either you are an American, or you are a liberal)
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To: Fairview

Especially when the woman is not a woman and the vaginal lining is not the vaginal lining but the intestinal mucosa.


49 posted on 06/03/2006 5:03:09 PM PDT by TFMcGuire (Either you are an American, or you are a liberal)
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To: pleikumud
It began quietly, when a statistical anomaly pointed to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men in California.

Actually, and it's well documented, the AIDS scourge initial breeding ground (in North America) was in the bath houses of lower Manhattan. It quickly spread to the San Fransisco area ... thus the reference to California. So my question ... why is there no condemnation of the gay life style in the liberal media? Could it be many of them are gay or just pansy liberals?
Without question it was (is) the gay community that foisted this worldwide AIDS pandemic that today is killing millions of people around the world. Once again where's the condemnation?

50 posted on 06/03/2006 5:09:28 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: pleikumud

Hate to break it to you again with facts and common sense but gay sex in it of itself does not lead to disease & death.

May not be the cleanest practice of sexual activity but if one engages in sex with a virgin one is assured of not falling to your "disease and death" theory.


51 posted on 06/03/2006 5:17:43 PM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Even the ones that got it simply from getting donated blood?


52 posted on 06/03/2006 5:19:01 PM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: pleikumud
When heterosexuals began to contract the disease through blood transfusions and other medical procedures, they were often portrayed as "innocent" victims of a disease spread by the immoral and licentious behavior of others.( From the Fox News article)

So why is the word "innocent" in quotation marks? This victims of AIDS due to contaminated blood and other medical procedure WERE innocent victims. They contracted the disease precisely because others who were immoral and licentious in their behavior gave them the disease.

Stop the immoral and licentious behavior and AIDS will evaporate like dew on grass on a hot summer morning.

53 posted on 06/03/2006 5:30:35 PM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: King Prout

No argument from me-I agree completely. Guess that makes me a hater too! (by lefty definitions)


54 posted on 06/03/2006 5:31:11 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Twenty years in the Navy. Never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
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To: GATOR NAVY

oh, you thlack-jawed thadithtic neanderthalic beatht, you!


55 posted on 06/03/2006 5:35:01 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: Zeroisanumber
This might interest some people.

The article is titled African AIDS: A Phantom Epidemic? it is written by By Drs. Michael A. Glueck & Robert J. Cihak and appeared in the Jewish World Review Nov. 18, 2005. It reviews the criteria WHO established for diagnosing AIDs in Africa. www.jewishworldreview.com/1105/medicine.men111805.php3
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I have included this excerpt : …It's all done on "points" defined at the "AIDS in Africa" meeting in Bangui in October 1985. This meeting resulted in a U.N. document (Bangui1985report.pdf) that described Africa as a continent "where adequate laboratory facilities are often lacking." Because of this lack, the meeting participants concluded that AIDS in Africa could be diagnosed without a blood test by scoring 12 points out of a possible total of 50, based on symptoms and signs alone.

People having the first three (10 percent weight lost, protracted asthenia [weakness] and repeated attacks of fever for more than a month) have already racked up a score of 11. A cough scores two more points, and "the diagnosis of AIDS is established.

Based on this article and other similar articles I am not sure if the number of AIDSpatients is truly as high as the accepted stats show.


Some very good articles on diagnosing AIDS can be found at the NCBI.NLM.NIH's (National Center For Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health) website of available publications.
The site URL is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
56 posted on 06/03/2006 6:11:25 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: BluH2o; Mad_Tom_Rackham; TFMcGuire; wintertime

Some seem to think that all this disease and death would have happened even if gays didn't exist.
I think the truth is exactly the opposite; if there were no gays engaging in gay sex there would be no HIV/AIDS health crisis. Gays are the root cause of the problem. Congress is forever passing new laws for our "general welfare", dealing with diseases, environmental hazards, air traffic safety, seat belts, occupational hazards, etc., but our elected representatives have blindfolds on when it comes to gay sex. At a minimum, it should be national policy (law) not to recognize gay marriages, and not allow gays to adopt children.


57 posted on 06/03/2006 6:17:57 PM PDT by pleikumud
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To: Almondjoy

Hate to break it to you again with facts and common sense but gay sex in it of itself does not lead to disease & death.

You are living in La La Land.

According to the bible it does. Romans 1 and Galations 6 for starters.

Now I can either believe the Bible or a promiscuous apologist for the homosexual community---you, for instance.

Maybe I'll just believe God's Word.


58 posted on 06/03/2006 6:40:38 PM PDT by TFMcGuire (Either you are an American, or you are a liberal)
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To: pleikumud
Congress is forever passing new laws for our "general welfare", dealing with diseases, environmental hazards, air traffic safety, seat belts, occupational hazards, etc., but our elected representatives have blindfolds on when it comes to gay sex.

Yeah ... don't forget regulating food proportions in restaurants. Going back a day or two on a thread similar to this one an individual posted a response that I found interesting. During the 1980's this individual was diagnosed with TB which required a seven month stay in a sanatorium to cure. During this same period gays diagnosed with incurable AIDS were simply told to refrain from dangerous sex and wear a condom. Need I say more?

59 posted on 06/03/2006 6:45:36 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Zeroisanumber

Some of them young girls who are raped.


60 posted on 06/03/2006 6:46:57 PM PDT by misterrob (Lou Dobbs is a protectionist.)
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