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echo: grand_rounds
to: MATT SMITH
from: JAMES CLAIRE
date: 1996-08-05 19:12:00
subject: Re: Circumcision

-> JC> -> If so, it's only because a "critical mass" of HIV-infected gay
-> JC> -> aren't present in those countries.
-> JC> -> Until a "critical mass" of people in a given region have a
-> JC> particular
-> JC> -> communicable disease, it's unlikely that any uninfected person
-> JC> will
-> JC> -> come into contact with an infected person as long as he stays
-> JC> -> that region.
-> JC>
-> JC> I am not sure of the concept you are trying to get across here.
->
-> If someone has sex with every man and woman in a country where nobody
-> has gonorrhea, he faces no risk of contracting gonorrhea.
-> It's the same way for AIDS.  Until a "critical mass" of people in a
-> region are HIV+, an epidemic is just impossible.
So you are saying no one "has it" so no one can be exposed>>>>
Right?
Interesting concept...for China.
How about Scandinavia, Japan, Finland and the uncut parts of Europe?
James
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