On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:24:13 GMT, "Grace Noble"
 wrote:

>
>"A. Krieghund"  wrote in message
>news:hph44111f083s6749nu0kike9u690sk43e{at}4ax.com...
>> On 23 Mar 2005 13:14:11 -0800, pluto{at}quentincrisp.com wrote:
>>
>>>Sigh.  Just when you think the bottom of the Moron barrel has been hit.
>>>
>>>In doublechecking this ridiculousness I discovered it is posted as
>>>truth all over the internet, so if anybody is reading this claptrap and
>>>thinking, "Hey, that makes sense!" here's one quick
explanation of why
>>>only bigots and idiots fall for it.
>>>
>>>Footnote #6, which allegedly says "the average
homosexual" has 20 to
>>>106 partners a year, didn't study "the average
homosexual."  It studied
>>>the average homosexual HEPATITIS A SUFFERER.
>>>
>>>This is like studying prostitutes and generalizing that all women
>>>charge $20 for sex.
>>>
>>>In truth, the median numbers of sex partners for heterosexuals is 6,
>>>for homosexuals 10.  The averages are 15 and 37.  *Slightly* smaller
>>>than the thousands this idiot quotes.
>>
>> Super-HIV man
>> had sex with 100
>>
>> BY PAUL H.B. SHIN
>> DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
>>
>> BOSTON - The New York man who sparked fears of a powerful new strain
>> of HIV had drug-fueled, unprotected sex with more than 100 men in the
>> months before his diagnosis, a top researcher said yesterday.
>>
>> Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in Manhattan
>> will unveil today a case study of the unidentified man, who his team
>> believes may harbor a mutant strain of the deadly virus.
>>
>> Skeptical AIDS researchers from around the world believe the case is
>> isolated and not the beginning of a new epidemic.
>>
>> In a preview of the study, Ho said the new strain is resistant to 19
>> of 20 drugs used to fight the HIV virus and becomes full-blown AIDS in
>> months, not years. The development led city health officials to send
>> out a dire warning earlier this month.
>>
>> "We don't know if this is an isolated case or if there are more cases
>> out there," Ho told the Daily News.
>>
>> The victim, who's in his mid-40s, participated in wild orgies fueled
>> by crystal meth before becoming sick, Ho said.
>>
>> City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said yesterday health workers
>> have been "working to identify [the man's] sexual partners, and urge
>> them to be tested."
>>
>> But he declined to say how many of those partners they'd been able to
>> reach.
>>
>> Despite the fears of a superbug, other experts have pointed out that
>> rapid progression of HIV is not new, nor is resistance to multiple
>> drugs.
>>
>> Instead of being a new strain, the virus could have rapidly developed
>> into full-blown AIDS because of something unique to the patient, said
>> Dr. Douglas Richman of University of California at San Diego.
>>
>> But even officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
>> Prevention have acknowledged the case is alarming.
>>
>
>Anybody who lives in the US in 2005 who is not severely mentally ill or
>retarded and continues to have unprotected sex with strangers is basically
>asking to be infected.


Homosexuals do it all the time. Male homosexuals account for almost
50% of all new AIDS cases in the US every year and have done so for
the last 20+ years. In the US homosexual males are the No.1 vector of
AIDS on a per capita bases, as well as most other STDs.


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