From: TURTLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Association    
Date & Time: 08/20/90 21:32:07
Message Number  7941

>Saw a special on the news the other night about some country that has
>thousands of abandoned children with AIDS...
 
Rumania. The country in question has a really backward medical
establishment; in addition to having no sanitary facilities to speak of,
they have a tradition that weak or sickly children are injected with
small quantities f blood from a healthy adult on the theory that this
will strengthen them (much as eating a lion's heart gives a tribal
warrior the strength of the lion, etc.) Result: A large number of
children with hepatitis, AIDS, and other blood-borne illnesses you
normally wouldn't think a child would be exposed to.