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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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Tue, 9 May 2000 00:42:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher Tracey writes:
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> > Although the full-tilt sex ed class
> > would certainally help slow the spread, sex can be a
> > difficult urge to keep in check.
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.
> Are there any population ecologists out there?
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> 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.
There are lots of factors here, from the sexual revolution to increased
tourism and travel to third world-first world migration, increased use of
antibiotics etc. and the greater number of short-term sexual pairings.
If you want to really get worried, think about mosquito-borne diseases, in a
world that is slowly warming, these are the growing concerns.
An insect-borne disease is much more of a problem than a sexually-transmitted
one, not to mention our growing reliance on an ever lessening number of
antibiotics.
> Those who can keep their urges in check, will survive nicely.
But it's more than just surviving as a generation.
That generation has to reproduce at a higher rate than sheer replacement.
Places like Africa will always be able to steamroll a pandemic like AIDS thru
the shear weight of birthrate.
> Chris
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| (...) Agreed. Fortunately, ours isn't (slowly warming). At least that's what the data indicate when not interpreted by "junk science" advocates. (...) THIS one, now this one is something to worry about. Keep messing with the drug company profit (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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