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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 1 May 2000 20:56:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher Tracey writes:
> HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has a long incubating time
> in the body, it is quite easy to pass it on to others before
> it kills the host. This is what makes AIDS such a threat.
I know that I've snipped lots, but I wanted to ask about this in particular.
On the spectrum of diseases, does this actually count as _easy_ to pass along?
I have handled AIDS patients on a few occasions (that I know of) and I seem to
be healthy. There are other times where by my best reconning, I briefly
entered a house where someone had the flu (was not sneezed upon, and did not
touch anyone) and then came down with it myself.
It doesn't seem too easy to contract, to me. What is a difficult to contract
infection? What do you have to do to transmit it?
thanks,
Chris
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| (...) It definitely isn't an easy disease to transmit. You need it to enter the bloodstream directly either via needlestick injury or when bodily fluids enter thru an abrasion/cut/sore site. Maybe he meant that it's easy for others to be actually (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) What are these threats? (...) Who is Reason? (...) It is a threat, maybe not to national security, but a threat nevertheless. HIV/AIDS could cause the deaths of millions of people in a short time, it already has, it will in the future. HIV, (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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