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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 May 2000 00:10:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher Tracey writes:
> Although the full-tilt sex ed class
> would certainally help slow the spread, sex can be a
> difficult urge to keep in check.
Are there any population ecologists out there?
Could it be that when there gets to be too many of a given organism in a
localle, and predation isn't taking care of it, diseases become a likely vector
for population control. Maybe (if AIDS turns out to be as big a threat as
some suggest) some genetic drift will occur from this causing us as an organism
to be able to keep it in our pants a bit more.
Those who can keep their urges in check, will survive nicely.
Chris
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| (...) In Australia, the number of newly infected has actually levelled out. Not sure if it was the education campaign that was aimed at the general population on prime-time TV here in the mid-eighties. (...) vector (...) organism (...) There are (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) Me = B.S. Ecology and Evolution specializing in quantitative genetics and population genetics. I start grad school in the fall working on population ecology and conservation genetics. Is that close enough? (...) Maybe... When a population that (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Sorry, I should have added to my post(s) that I do not support the giving/using of life-prolonging drugs that would result in the situation Tom just described above. (thought about when i started to write and promptly forgot about it :/ ). (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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