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Jim Choate <[email protected]> writes:
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> OVERVIEW OF HIV/AIDS
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> Some important facts about the evidence that HIV causes AIDS are:
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> * Tests for HIV antibody in persons with AIDS show that they are
> infected with the virus.
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> * HIV has been isolated from persons with AIDS and grown in pure
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> * Studies of blood transfusion recipients before 1985 documented the
> transmission of HIV to previously uninfected persons who
> subsequently developed AIDS.
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> Before the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus
> that causes AIDS, epidemiologic studies of AIDS patients' sex partners
> and AIDS cases occurring in blood transfusion recipients before 1985
> clearly showed that the underlying cause of AIDS was an infectious
> agent. Infection with HIV has been the only common factor shared by
> persons with AIDS throughout the world, including homosexual men,
> transfusion recipients, persons with hemophilia, sex partners of
> infected persons, children born to infected women, and health care
> workers who were infected with HIV while on the job, mainly by being
> stuck with a needle used on an HIV-infected patient.
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> Although we know that HIV is the cause of AIDS, much remains to be
> known about exactly how HIV causes the immune system to break down.
> Scientists are constantly discovering more information about HIV and
> AIDS. These discoveries help people learn how to stop transmission of
> the virus and help people infected with HIV to live longer, healthier
> lives. One important question to answer is why some people exposed to
> HIV become infected and others do not. Scientists believe it is most
> likely because of how infectious the other person is and how they are
> exposed. For example, more than 90 percent of persons who were exposed
> through an HIV-infected unit of blood became infected. So we know that
> blood-to-blood contact is a very efficient way that HIV is spread. On
> the other hand, many health care workers are splashed with blood or
> bloody body fluids and this type of exposure has caused very few
> occurrences of HIV infection. Researchers know how HIV is spread and
> the ways that people can help protect themselves from being exposed to
> HIV.
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> If you have questions about HIV infection and AIDS, please call the
> CDC National AIDS Hotline at the tollfree number, 1-800-342-2437. If
> you wish to write to CDC regarding this subject, please write to the
> CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse, Post Office Box 6003, Rockville,
> Maryland, 20849-6003.
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> Last Updated: June 13, 1996
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Why are the homos forwarding the web pages to the mailing list, and why
does the moderator post every piece of "breeder-bashing" trash to the
censored list, while rejecting whatever he deems "homophobic"?
[For the record, I have serious doubts whether the HIV virus causes AIDS.]
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<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
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