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AIDS Still a Gay Disease in USA

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Luvthatsvnshow - 28 Jun 2004 03:54 GMT
Check the CDC over 70% of AIDS in usa is GAY HOMOSEXUAL MEN
Gary Stein - 28 Jun 2004 18:17 GMT
> Check the CDC over 70% of AIDS in usa is GAY HOMOSEXUAL MEN

60% - 70% who cares the point to remember and be concerned about is that in
the beginning AIDS was 99% a gay disease and now it is 30%-40% a hetro
disease the trend is there for you to see things are shifting and you need
to be aware of that.

Gary Stein
GMCarter - 29 Jun 2004 12:09 GMT
>> Check the CDC over 70% of AIDS in usa is GAY HOMOSEXUAL MEN
>>
>60% - 70% who cares the point to remember and be concerned about is that in
>the beginning AIDS was 99% a gay disease and now it is 30%-40% a hetro
>disease the trend is there for you to see things are shifting and you need
>to be aware of that.

And THAT, of course, is in the United States. Elsewhere in the world,
it is primarily a heterosexual disease. HIV is indifferent to the
participants' orientation.

        George M. Carter
Uiopp - 29 Jun 2004 13:49 GMT
> > Check the CDC over 70% of AIDS in usa is GAY HOMOSEXUAL MEN
> >
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>
> Gary Stein

But you don't tell us how many of those heterosexual AIDS cases are drug
users.
PaulKing - 06 Jul 2004 01:13 GMT
CAUCASIAN TEEN 'AIDS' CASES (entire USA) BETWEEN July 1983 and December
2001 = 1211 (male and female).
Source: - CDC
TWELVE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN in nearly 18 years or a mere 67 cases a year.
JUST OVER ONE CAUCASIAN TEEN 'AIDS' CASE PER U.S. STATE A YEAR.
HARDLY AN 'EPIDEMIC!
That figure of 1.28 cases per State is lower than gun shotdeaths in the
Mac Arthur Park area of Los Angeles in a single month.
Check for yourself (don't take our word for it) at: -
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasr1302/table7.htm
IN CONTRAST
In the same period people over 60 (caucasian) had 9,338 cases.
Those old folks must be sex mad - Nine times MORE sex than teenagers.
...or could it just be that 'AIDS' is not an std? Surely not? God forbid!
Perish the thought!
PaulKing - 06 Jul 2004 01:14 GMT
STRAIGHT AIDS MYTH SHATTERED - New York Post
New York Post
March 19, 2004
THE public health experts - and their amen corner in the media - owe Helen
Gurley Brown an apology.
The legendary Cosmopolitan editor was vilified in 1993 when she published
a piece called "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS." But she was right.
Eleven years later, Details is asking: "Whatever Happened to AIDS and
Straight Men?" The article states, "A disease-free man who has unprotected
sex with a drug-free woman stands a one in 5 million chance of contracting
HIV."
The story by Kevin Gray also cites a joke that made the rounds of the New
York City Department of Health as statistics came in showing that the
predicted spread of AIDS to heterosexuals wasn't happening:
"What do you call a man who got HIV from his girlfriend? . . . A liar." "I
feel somewhat vindicated," Brown told PAGE SIX.
Michael Fumento, who wrote the original 1990 book titled "The Myth of
Heterosexual AIDS," said, "I'm not waiting for an apology. It's not going
to happen."
When Basic Books published Fumento's tome, "Distributors refused to handle
it," he says. "Stores refused to carry it. And at many stores that did
have it, clerks left it in the basement."
Celia Farber, who wrote an AIDS column in Spin magazine, was routinely
attacked because she refused to rehash the propaganda put out by AmFAR and
other groups.
"Everybody who was wrong got journalism awards. Everybody who was right
got all but driven from the profession," Farber said.
Farber exposed the conspiracy between profit-hungry drug companies,
researchers who wanted more funding, homosexuals who didn't want the
disease to be known as "the gay plague," and conservatives who wanted to
turn back the sexual revolution. "They believed in what they were doing,
not what they were saying," Fumento said. "They knew it was lies. They
felt the end justified the means."
At a recent editorial meeting at Seed, the new science magazine, Pulitzer
Prize-winning reporter Laurie Garrett supposedly threatened to quit when a
colleague suggested a story about Peter Duesberg, a leading
retrovirologist.
Duesberg lost his funding, his laboratory, and his students when he
announced in 1987 that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. "He lost everything," said
one insider. Duesberg switched to cancer research, and is now touted to
win a Nobel Prize.
PaulKing - 06 Jul 2004 01:14 GMT
A study in the October 8, 2003 issue of the Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA) shows that nation wide, injuries due to medical error
in hospitals result in the deaths of more than 30,000 people annually.
Researchers examined records from 994 hospitals in 28 states, a sample
that represents about 20% of the country’s hospitals, and focused on 18
specific injuries that can be caused by human error. Summing up the burden
of such errors, they tallied 2.4 million extra days of hospitalization,
$9.3 billion in additional medical costs and an astounding 32,000 deaths
every year—more than twice the number of annual deaths attributed to
AIDS.
Victims of hospital errors often have to pay some of the cost of extra
hospital stays, thus adding financial difficulties to their health
challenges.
The number one problem researchers found was sepsis, a potentially deadly
blood infection that can crop up after surgery. Almost 22 percent of
patients who suffered post-surgery sepsis died as a result.
Another common injury noted in the study was the reopening of wounds after
surgery, usually due to infection. This can require a patient to spend an
extra 10 days in the hospital and pay some portion of $40,000 in
additional hospital charges. The third problem listed medical instruments
or sponges left in a patient’s body. This mistake rarely kills the patient
but usually leads to two extra days of hospitalization and an average
$13,000 in additional charges.
The authors concluded that surgical infections usually occur when medical
personnel fail to properly wash their hands or instruments.
"This study gives us the first direct evidence that medical injuries pose
a real threat to the safety of the American public and increase the costs
of health care," said Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Director,
Carolyn M. Clancy, MD.
COMMENT
MEDICAL ERROR
If we counted all of the unrecognized deaths that are actually caused by
the conventional (mal)treatment of AIDS, cancer and heart disease we would
quickly recognize that
Conventional Medical Practice is the major threat to our health.
Question: If doctor errors cause more than twice the number of annual
deaths attributed to AIDS - Why aren't we twice as afraid of doctors?
PaulKing - 06 Jul 2004 01:15 GMT
A little reported fact is that AIDS is not among the ten leading causes of
deaths for Americans. In annual death rates, AIDS lags behind motor
vehicle accidents, non-vehicular accidents and adverse events, flu and
pneumonia, diabetes, septicemia, Alzheimer's disease, and homicide. (43)
It is often reported that AIDS is the leading cause of death among
Americans aged 25 to 44. This statement inspires great fear and concern
until carefully examined. Only two-tenths of one percent (0.2%) of persons
in this age group die of any cause each year, and among these, deaths from
AIDS represent about three one-hundredths of one percent (0.03%). However,
since AIDS constitutes the leading category for fatalities at about 15%
(85% of people within this age range die of other causes), it is possible
to call AIDS the leading killer. (44) For more information on the use of
AIDS statistics, see Public Health, Public Relations and AIDS on page 45.
Portraying AIDS as our biggest health threat gives AIDS funding priority
over problems that affect far greater numbers of Americans. According to
findings by the Institute of Medicine, NIH research expenditures in 1996
averaged $1,160 for every American who died of heart disease, $4,700 for
each one who died of cancer, and more than $43,000 for every death in a
person diagnosed with AIDS. (45)
 
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