[Neuromancer]

This information is a bit technical, but crucial to our understanding of HIV transmission. The period of early infection (when a carrier is unaware of having seroconverted to HIV+) happens to be the period where he/she is a walking biohazard.

[fone]

There is a solution: Monogamy.

[Texaggie79]

I guess being unattractive DOES has it's perks! Yeah ME!

[martian_22]

From the beginning, HIV and AIDS should have been treated like medical problems instead of political problems.

It'll be a heck of a clean-up.

[Don Myers]

bttt

[Bill Rice]

I saw the part about genital shedding, and I thought this article was about Osama or Mullah Omar.

[Hammerhead]

Uh,...........guess I'll be cancelling that membership to the Adult Friend Finder Network.

[stylin19a]

There has already been a study done that suggested that transmission of HIV is more likely to occur from a person who also has genital ulcers. That study supported the hypothesis that persons who have HIV and genital herpes may transmit HIV infection to others more easily than those who are not HSV-2 infected.

two transmitters in the above cases had genital herpes, which would seem to bias the control.

[Tall_Texan]

What I always found suspicious was that, as a college student in the 70s, I was told that a condom was only 88% effective in preventing pregnancy. That's before they became the politically correct silver bullet of the homosexual AIDS lobby in the 80s.

Couple this with the knowledge that the human male sperm is of much greater size than the viral agent that can spread the HIV infection, and you'd have to believe the effectiveness rate of a condom against spreading HIV would be no better than 75% and perhaps not even that.

Who would consent to sex with an infected person if they knew there was a one-in-four chance of catching the infection, even from a "one-night-stand"?

Yet to hear everyone from C. Everett Kook to Joycelyn Elders to the new guy Bush won't fire because he's black, the Surgeon General says "use a condom and you're safe". Perhaps we should remember this as they advise us on the threat of other deadly viruses.