Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!Jack.Bowman@f38.n135.z1.fidonet.org From: Jack.Bowman@f38.n135.z1.fidonet.org (Jack Bowman) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Re: Transmission Message-ID: <27654@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 89 12:55:17 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: FidoNet node 1:135/38 - C-Board, Miami FL Lines: 18 Approved: aids@cs.ucla.edu Archive-number: 1290 >Recently on television in the UK there was a series on aids and it's effect >on the family, the story line is that of a man having been on a business >trip somewhere in Europe, visited a prostitute and has returned home to >discover that he has contracted aids. The story sounds fishy to me since the incubation period for developing AIDS is years not days. Are they saying that he came home from this one and only one trip, went to a test center and tested positive? Came down with an oportunistic infection? Had a 4 year business trip?Men get syphillis from intercourse. Seems AIDS would be transmitted the same way. -- Uucp: ...{gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!stjhmc!135!38!Jack.Bowman Internet: Jack.Bowman@f38.n135.z1.fidonet.org