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From: brianl@uunet.uu.net (Brian Larsen)
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Subject: Re: HIV Transmission Linked to Oral Sex
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Date: 6 Oct 89 17:56:31 GMT
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In article <27677@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> rjw@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:
>The New York Times (via AP) reports today (10/3) that the San Francisco
>Health Department has documented two cases in which men have become
>infected with HIV through oral sex.  This is apparently the first time
>that such transmission has been documented in a 'major study', according
>to Dr. George Rutherford, head of the department's AIDS office.
>
>Both men who tested HIV-positive had reported having provided oral sex
>to numerous partners.  The article didn't say whether the oral sex was
>male-male or male-female.

More importantly to me; did they swallow???