All You Need To Know About AIDS

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of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated
that over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That
figure is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found,
most likely occur here among heteroosexual folks.

AIDS was first seen as a dise.ase of gay males in this
country. This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture
in the days before AIDS had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts
per year. This figure was much higher than common practice among
heterosexual (straight) men or women. In addition, it turned out that
rectal sex was a particularly effective way to transmit the disease,
and rectal sex is a common practice among gay males. For these reasons,
the disease spread in the gay male populsation of this country immensely
more quickly than in other populations. It became to be thought of as a
"gay disease". Because the disease is spread primarily by exposure of
ones blood to ...

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from RNA to DNA. Such reverse or
"retro" flow of information does not occur at all in any DNA virus or
any other living things. Hence, the virus was said to belong to the
rare group of virues called "Retro Viruses". Research provided the
means to test donated blood for the presence of the antibodies to the
virus, astronomically reducing the chance of ones getting AIDS from a
blood transfusion. This was one of the first real breakthroughs. The
same discoveries that allowed us to make our blood bank blood supply far
safer also allowed us to be able to tell (in most cases) whether one has
been exposed to the AIDS virus using a simple blood test.

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