JC> -> JC> -> If so, it's only because a "critical mass" of HIV-infected 
JC> gay
JC> -> JC> -> aren't present in those countries.
JC> -> JC> -> Until a "critical mass" of people in a given region have a
JC> -> JC> particular
JC> -> JC> -> communicable disease, it's unlikely that any uninfected 
JC> person
JC> -> JC> will
JC> -> JC> -> come into contact with an infected person as long as he 
JC> stays
JC> -> JC> -> that region.
JC> -> JC>
JC> -> JC> I am not sure of the concept you are trying to get across 
JC> here.
JC> ->
JC> -> If someone has sex with every man and woman in a country where 
JC> nobody
JC> -> has gonorrhea, he faces no risk of contracting gonorrhea.
JC> -> It's the same way for AIDS.  Until a "critical mass" of people in 
JC> a
JC> -> region are HIV+, an epidemic is just impossible.
JC> 
JC> So you are saying no one "has it" so no one can be exposed>>>>
    Yes.
JC> Interesting concept...for China.
    Many Chinese live their whole lives (other than army service) in a 
25-mile radius of where they were born.  If nobody else in that area is HIV+, 
they have very low risk of getting HIV even if they sleep with everyone in 
the area!
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