Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: re: A Lay question about AIDS? Message-ID: <182@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 13:56:50 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.182 Posted: Mon Jan 14 13:56:50 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:28:57 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 49 >From: molefeuvre@watarts.UUCP (Michael O LeFeuvre) >Subject: A Lay question about AIDS? >Message-ID: <8211@watarts.UUCP> > > 1. Why is it so specific to male homosexuals? I realize other > people do get it, but the dominant group is gays, a very > minority goup of the population. I know of two theories on this point. One seems reasonable, the other frighteningly paranoid. Reasonable: One of the primary vectors of AIDS is anal intercourse. This is because the lining of the rectum isn't built for such treatment and can develop tears which provide a direct path to the bloodstream. The virus (or whatever) is carried and passed on in semen. Paranoid: It is rumored that AIDS may be part of a biological-warfare experiment being performed by our own military. The rumor contends they are testing a virus that attacks only people with certain specific body chemistry. Ultimate goal: a bug that kills only Russians (for example). Legionaire's Disease is said to have been a prototype. I would discount these as paranoid ravings but for the fact that our military was actually caught doing something almost as cold-blooded in the San Francisco Bay area not so long ago. They deliberately released a tailored mild flu virus in the Bay area to see how the winds would disperse it, based on patterns of who caught the flu. Five innocent, unknowing citizens DIED because of that experiment. Since then, I don't put ANYTHING past them. (If any of this is true, I suppose I'll be quietly abducted, interrogated, and disposed of in the next week or so -- all for passing on cocktail party conversation. Who says it's 1985?) -- ============================================================================== ... sitting in a pile of junk on the runway, wondering what happened ... The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI If thy CRT offend thee, pluck 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. it out and cast it from thee. Santa Monica, California 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {vortex,philabs}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe