Reply from drdach:

The CDC, NIH and WHO says that there is a hetersexual AIDS epidemic
globally.  The Washington Times disagrees and says there is not (see
the Fumento book).  I will leave the reader the liberty of deciding
which source to accept. (see below)

Definition of epidemic from the web site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic

In epidemiology, an epidemic is a disease that appears as new cases in
a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that
substantially exceeds what is "expected", based on recent experience.

Definition of Epidemic:

Defining a epidemic can be subjective, depending in part on what is
"expected". An epidemic may be restricted to one local (an outbreak),
more general (an "epidemic") or even global (pandemic). Because it is
based on what is "expected" or thought normal, a few cases of a very
rare disease like rabies may be classified as an "epidemic", while many
cases of a common disease (like the common cold) would not.

Common diseases that occur at a constant but relatively high rate in
the population are said to be "endemic". An example of an endemic
disease is malaria in some parts of Africa (for example, Liberia) in
which a large portion of the population is expected to get malaria at
some point in their lifetimes.

Famous examples of epidemics include the bubonic plague epidemic of
Medieval Europe known as the Black Death, the Great Influenza Pandemic
concurring with the end of World War I, and the current AIDS epidemic,
which some also consider to be of pandemic proportions.

World Health Organization Web Site:

As in other countries, the epidemic in the USA often exploits social
fault-lines. A recent study in North Carolina, for example, found that
HIV-positive women were considerably more likely to be unemployed,
requiring public assistance and exchanging sex for money and gifts
(Leone et al., 2005).

The estimated annual number of new HIV cases has remained roughly
stable at 40 000 since 2000 in the USA (US Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, 2005).
http://www.unaids.org/epi/2005/doc/EPIupdate2005_pdf_en/Epi05_10_en.pdf

The Washington Times, May 7, 1996, Tuesday, EDITORIALS; Pg. A14

HEADLINE: Death by government?

In a front-page story last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that
for most heterosexuals, the risk of getting AIDS from a single sex act
is smaller than that of getting hit by lightning.

This is not exactly news. As The Washington Times' Joyce Price noted in
1987, "Except for drug addicts and their partners, AIDS simply isn't a
significant threat to the heterosexual population. Nearly all AIDS
researchers say so, and some public-health professionals decry media
exaggeration as making a bad situation worse." Or take the case of
Michael Fumento, the title of whose 1990 book, "The Myth of
Heterosexual AIDS," speaks for itself.

But you could be forgiven if you happened to miss accounts like these.
The general media barrage on the subject of heterosexuals and AIDS was
more in keeping with this 1987 assessment from noted science journalist
Oprah Winfrey: "Hello everybody. AIDS has both sexes running scared.
Research studies now project that one in five - listen to me, hard to
believe - one in five heterosexuals could be dead of AIDS in the next
three years."

How could so much of the media, AIDS activists and others have gotten
the story so wrong? According to the Journal's remarkable story, a
substantial part of the blame lies with the federal government for
running what now appears to have been an AIDS disinformation program.

The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: A Nine-Year Retrospective of Fear and
(Mostly) Loathing By Michael Fumento
http://www.fumento.com/pozaids.html

The reader is invited to visit my web site and leave a message on the
contact page.
How about you? Where's your web site or are you still in hiding.  Your
other  misc.health.aids friends have revealed who they are. Chris Noble
MD is an MRI fellow in Australia.  Nick Bennet MD is a pediatric
resident in NY, David Canzi is a computer guy systems programmer in
Windsor, Canada and a few others are uneducated ACT UP types. What
about you?  What is your last name ? Thomson or Thompson? What kind of
lab monkey are you? Which lab ? Do you do Elisa or Western Blot tests
in your lab?

Regards from www.drdach.com