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There sure is a great deal of emotion among the “you can’t catch HIV from a pool” crowd in this thread. I’m sorry if you have a reason to feel emotional about it, but that business man has a right to not be as certain about it as you are.

1) It’s not his or my responsibility to prove anything. It's his pool and he's surely aware of the fact that his other guests have their opinions about it.

2) Two year old children poop and pee and spit and bleed and bite people in pools every single day... I don’t swim with them if at all possible, regardless of their HIV status. But knowing they have HIV would definitely weigh heavily on my decision.

3) If you say that you can’t catch HIV in that pool, and yet you don’t even know the chemical status of the pool, then you’re letting your emotions rule you.

What is the...

-Free Chlorine
-Combined Cholorine
-Temperature
-PH
-Cyanuric Acid level

If I know what those are then I can make a better decision regarding the likelihood of a particular virus to propagate in the water. If I don’t know what those are then discretion is more than appropriate.

124 posted on 07/09/2007 1:18:26 PM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: MarineBrat

You can’t get hiv through the feces or urine, because 1: there are trace amounts of the virus in feces and urine: 2: The virus cannot live outside the body, 3: the water in general kills HIV 4: poolwater is chlorinated and it kills hiv immediately.

Swimming in a pool with hiv is a non issue because the virus is very weak when it gets outside the body.


223 posted on 07/10/2007 2:18:25 AM PDT by TypeZoNegative (Trinidad&Tobago: Proof that a Muslim minority (5%pop) causes a majority of a country's problems.)
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