From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 21:35:26 -0800 (PST)
To: ichudov@algebra.com
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Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> 
> Dale Thorn wrote:
> > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> > 
> > > > > Both homosexual males and IV drug users are well known to take a lot
> > > > > of antobiotics, which lowers the efficacy of the immune system enough
> > > > > to allow most anything to happen, ultimately leading to auto-immune
> > > > > problems.
> > 
> > > Jim and Dale, I agree.
> > > Also shooting one's bloodstream full of fecal matter hardly helps.
> > 
> > My point about the antibiotics is that the male gays take a dis-
> > proportionate amount of them, which compounds their problems.  It
> > suggests to me that the immune system is already seriously debilitated
> > or damaged before AIDS can take hold, rather than the notion that a
> > healthy person can get it from the virii alone.

Dale's hypothesis seems at odds with the linkage of aids and blood 
transfusion and transmission through needles.

Nurses who contract aids through contaminated needles do not,
normally, have devastated immune systems.

	- Igor.