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From: ken@images1.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Ken Braithwaite)
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Subject: Demographics of AIDS spread
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I have recently heard the following assertions:  

1) AIDS proper -- as opposed to HIV infection -- is spreading very
slowly amongst the general population, and that its spread is confined
mostly to the traditional risk groups (homsexual men, drug users, and
transfusion recipients). 

2) That this diffusion pattern (of the syndrome as opposed to viral
infection) is incompatible with any known viral contagion pattern or
mechanism.

Are these assertions correct?

Do they undermine the viral AIDS theory? If not why not?

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Ken Braithwaite            | They couldn't hit an elephant at
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