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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
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Subject: AIDS transmission
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Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 11:08:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 11:08:46 1985
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	"There is only one black and white fact on which we'll both
	agree: don't come into contact with the virus (exposure to
	blood, semen and serus products) and you'll never have to worry
	about AIDS."

There are now confirmed reports of men with no history of homosexual
contact contracting AIDS through oral sex with infected female
prostitutes.

One of the medical workers who poked him/herself with a needle used to
draw blood from an AIDS patient has come down with AIDS.

Sorry I can't provide references; this is drawn from conversation with
my internist, a person for whom I have a great deal of respect.  He
believes that the number of AIDS cases will grow by many orders of
magnitude in the next few years, and that it may wipe out much of the
third world where sanitary conditions are bleak.  His descriptions of
society after the plague becomes established sound like science fiction
post-holocaust stories (towns which become armed camps where strangers
may not enter, wholesale lynchings of homosexuals, mass hysteria).
Depressing.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]