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From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Info wanted (didn't listen to NPR)
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 09:56:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 09:56:00 1985
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I guess that there was some coverage on NPR last week about a big conference
on AIDS held either here or France. Lotsa big party discussions on it, anyway.
Big questions, lotsa opinions (gathered here), little light. That's why we
ask here. As of the last version of this discussion (I'm removing the semiotics
ravings that followed them main questions. Hope that's alright), uninformed
minds want to know....

You can contract AIDS (HLTV-III *isn't* the same thing...I know. What is the
current view of it's relationship to AIDS) by a) sexual contact with *someone
who's got it, and got it from a sexual episode contact with a partner of either sex  who got it from a sexual contact of their own, or one of the things
listed below) b)a blood tranfusion-you are notably at risk if you are the 
sort of hemophiliac who requires unfiltered (uncentrifuged?) blood to preserve
some kind of clotting factor c)an intravenous drug user who shares needles with
one of the people listed above (or another "c". Yow! this is recursive)
d)some other form of contact that allows for serum-vectoring of the infective
agent (an immunologist at the last party....).

The little clause in a) suggests some bias, I know. I'll rephrase James'
soapboxing here: That a singly-bonded relationship that is mutually faithful
-whatever the affectational orientation- is not at risk.

Now. What else did the CDC people come up with? Is the above right? Can we
convince Marty to go back to donating blood to the Red Cross instead of
worrying he'll get AIDS?

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