Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: net.motss,net.med Subject: AIDS transmission Message-ID: <1767@orca.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 11:08:46 EDT Article-I.D.: orca.1767 Posted: Thu Sep 26 11:08:46 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 07:49:59 EDT References: <1557@bbncca.ARPA> <2192@ukma.UUCP> <290@bbncc5.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.motss:2109 net.med:2473 [] "There is only one black and white fact on which we'll both agree: don't come into contact with the virus (exposure to blood, semen and serus products) and you'll never have to worry about AIDS." There are now confirmed reports of men with no history of homosexual contact contracting AIDS through oral sex with infected female prostitutes. One of the medical workers who poked him/herself with a needle used to draw blood from an AIDS patient has come down with AIDS. Sorry I can't provide references; this is drawn from conversation with my internist, a person for whom I have a great deal of respect. He believes that the number of AIDS cases will grow by many orders of magnitude in the next few years, and that it may wipe out much of the third world where sanitary conditions are bleak. His descriptions of society after the plague becomes established sound like science fiction post-holocaust stories (towns which become armed camps where strangers may not enter, wholesale lynchings of homosexuals, mass hysteria). Depressing. -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA] Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com