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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
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Subject: Re: AIDS/HIV and scuba
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Date: 25 Jan 91 01:50:41 GMT
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GERRI@IBM.COM (Gerri Oppedisano) wrote:
>More on scuba and HIV+ or AIDS active people..
...
>I'd like to add this further caution: There are a number of bacteria
>that inhabit water that people dive in, which are relatively unknown
...
>Thus, I'd add another caveat to diving with HIV.  If one's immune
>system is compromised such that one can't fight off normal infections,
>there is an increased risk to diving, just as there is to entering any
>environment known to be rich in hungry bacteria.  I have no way of

The part of the immune system that is degraded by HIV is not the part
that fights bacterial infections.
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