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From: rjw@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
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Subject: HIV Transmission Linked to Oral Sex
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Date: 3 Oct 89 13:52:36 GMT
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The New York Times (via AP) reports today (10/3) that the San Francisco
Health Department has documented two cases in which men have become
infected with HIV through oral sex.  This is apparently the first time
that such transmission has been documented in a 'major study', according
to Dr. George Rutherford, head of the department's AIDS office.

Both men who tested HIV-positive had reported having provided oral sex
to numerous partners.  The article didn't say whether the oral sex was
male-male or male-female.
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