'Baby boomers' Hit By Sex Cancers

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) - I always thought that was a weird name - never really approached accuracy in the details of that disease. The high-risk people never wanted to change their behavior, just find them a “cure.” Behavior-driven diseases certainly lead the way in medical problems for the Boomers and all the young people coming up.

Speaking of AIDS, I remember when Magic Johnson first announced to the public that he had AIDS. He, too, chose an odd verb. I believe he said he had "attained" the disease. Again, that's another word (like "acquired") that typically connotes a positive gain.

It's funny how people spin things with politic diction, isn't it?

Are you suggesting breast cancer rates are falling?

Don’t forget hamsters.

I read somewhere that you can get AIDS from a mosquito. If you're having sex with mosquitos you deserve to get cancer! (IMHO)

If you’re having sex with mosquitos, you should film it an notify Guinness world book of records.

"Acquired" during sex?

Yeah, but remember that the British are also the ones that "fall" pregnant.

I can’t find the paper, but a researcher ~10 years ago wrote that most human STD’s are mutations of lower animal diseases.

Most all diseases that humans get (that are not from nutritional deficiencies) are from animals. It was the close relationship of humans and domesticated animals in Eurasia that gave those people relative immunity from the diseases they carried to other parts of the world.

car batteries. Suddenly I feel so clean cut and prim.

I deeply apologize for this in advance. /not

If Billy Jack rode up on his horse and he was wounded.

Would you help Billy Jack off?

couldn't wait 4 Friday

I supposed the cancer comes with hamsters when they both smoke a cigarette together afterward aye? poor hammy :-(.

One out of two kids between 16-24 per CDC today sexually active have a STD. one third have one for life!

What the article neglected to mention was that certain drug use suppresses immune function leading to higher infection rates.

Apparently huge percentage of us will get some form of HPV, but being there are only a few types that give cancer (or warts)...one shouldn’t overly worry. Women, I think, should be the most prudent, since they have a much higher chance to get cancer than men; but they must also consider that almost every other disease is easier for them to get....including HIV.

Behind gay men and ‘h’ users, women are the distant third. So it pays to know whom you’re getting involved with and not treating sex so casually.

Who’s really surprised?

Consequences!

You must not have done well in biology class.

There’s a difference between a hamster and a gerbil.

www.snopes.com (search for Gerbil)

Attained - now that’s rich! I work in health care, and it is interesting how some of the vernacular seems like it was invented way back when for “polite society.”

Don’t forget the link between abortion and breast cancer.

I guess I just received a benefit from being a loser with the ladies...I’m just too nice a guy!

I can guarantee that I’m not having sex with mosquitos.

But I cannot guarantee that they’re not having sex with me.

Whatever they’re doing makes me itch.

I think it may be God’s judgement on people who are promiscuous. The healthiest (sexual) relationship is a relationship of one man and one woman in marriage- it’s proven. Anyone trying to say otherwise is just fooling themselves.

Yes, we’ve pretty much always had homosexuality, but it’s alway been an abomination unto God and unacceptable.

These are a bit dated, but overall it is getting worse.

For more information on this subject, you might try http://www.scvlcc.org/topic.asp?id=19&category=STDs , or http://www.medinstitute.org/medical/index.htm
25% of college students [or more] have been are infected with an STD. www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/1615.html
More than 1 out of 4 teenage girls is infected with common sexually transmitted diseases, with the most common sexually transmitted disease being HPV. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
65 million or more Americans have an STD. American Social Health Association. (1998). http://www.ashastd.org/learn/learn_statistics.cfm
More than 50% all people are likely to acquire an STD at some point in their lifetime. Koutsky L. (1997). Epidemiology of genital human papillomavirus infection. American Journal of Medicine, 102(5A), 3-8. (Another study says 1 in 4: National Academy Press, Washington, DC, December 1996 http://www.ppct.org/facts/research/std_usa.shtml
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80% of women and 50% of men show no signs of having (incurable) chlamydia, after being infected. http://www.pcc-courieronline.com/042105/news/sex.html
80% of people who have a sexually transmitted disease experience no noticeable symptoms. Moscicki, B., et al, "The Use and Limitations of Endocervical Gram Stains...," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 157:1, July, 1987.
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Sperm readily penetrates the anal wall (which is only one cell thick) and gains direct access to the blood stream. This causes massive immunological damage to the body's T- and B-cell defensive systems. Manlight, G. et. al. "Chronic Immune Stimulation By Sperm Alloantigens." J. American Med. Assn., 1984, 251(2), pp. 237-438.
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Among all new cases heterosexuals accounted for 33 percent, and injection drug users 25 percent. The Centers for Disease Control
The number of people infected with AIDS in the US is doubling approximately every 5 years. http://www.redribbon.com/what-is-hiv-aids.htm
Globally 15,000 people acquire AIDs every day, 40,000 each year in the US. www.thebody.com/amfar/pdfs/microbicides.pdf..
As of the end of 2001, an estimated 40 million people worldwide - 37.1 million adults (50% being women) and 3.0 million children younger than 15 years - were living with HIV/AIDS. More than 70 percent of these people (28.5 million) live in Sub-Saharan Africa; another 14 percent (5.6 million) live in South and Southeast Asia. UNAIDS. Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2002: "The Barcelona Report" http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/artic/hiv_aids_statistics_niaid_fact_sheet_niaid.htm
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The life expectancy for a gay male in the United States is estimated to be lower than the normal life expectancy for a man living in Vietnam, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Somalia. http://www.arthurhu.com/index/gay.htm#lifeexpect
Worldwide, approximately one in every 100 adults aged 15 to 49 is HIV-infected. In Sub-Saharan Africa, about 9 percent of all adults in this age group are HIV-infected. In 12 African countries, the prevalence of HIV infection among adults aged 15 to 49 exceeds 10 percent. UNAIDS. Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2002: "The Barcelona Report." http://www.aegis.com/factshts/niaid/2000/niaid2000_fact_sheet_aidsstat.html
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Excluding HIV, more than $8 billion is spent each year to diagnose and treat STDs and their complications. Institute of Medicine. (1997). The hidden epidemic-Confronting sexually transmitted disease (edited by Thomas R. Eng and William T. Butler). Washington, DC: National Academy Press. 11http://www.ashastd.org/learn/learn_statistics.cfm
The overall cost treating AIDS in the United States was $16 billion in 2002. http://www.redribbon.net/what-is-hiv-aids.htm
The lifetime cost of treating an AIDS patient in the United States was $102,000. in 1992. Dr. Fred J. Hellinger, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, an arm of the Public Health Service.
The monthly medical cost now (Nov 2006) for people with HIV from diagnosis until death is averages to be $2,100. The lifetime (now 24.2 years avg.) HIV care cost per person in optimal HIV care is now $618,900 per person. 06 Nov 2006 NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Schackman , Freedberg, MGH;, Gebo Moore Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and BU School of Public Health).http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/55870.php http://porkbusters.org/2007/02/prevent_baby_aids_or_learn_how.php
43 percent of white male homosexuals estimate they have had sex with 500 or more different partners, and 28 percent report more than 1,000 partners. Authors Bell and Weinberg http://www.leaderu.com/issues/fabric/chap11.html 86 percent of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual" (W. D. Erickson, M.D., et al., in Archives of Sexual Behavior 17:1, 1988).
32% of Homosexuals have suffered abuse by their partner http://www.springerlink.com/content/r6q02560022h4276/?=eec72
http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html#Sec7