From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 06:50:10 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com> writes:

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>                              OVERVIEW OF HIV/AIDS
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>    Some important facts about the evidence that HIV causes AIDS are:
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>      * Tests for HIV antibody in persons with AIDS show that they are
>        infected with the virus.
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>      * HIV has been isolated from persons with AIDS and grown in pure
>        culture.
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>      * Studies of blood transfusion recipients before 1985 documented the
>        transmission of HIV to previously uninfected persons who
>        subsequently developed AIDS.
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>    Before the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus
>    that causes AIDS, epidemiologic studies of AIDS patients' sex partners
>    and AIDS cases occurring in blood transfusion recipients before 1985
>    clearly showed that the underlying cause of AIDS was an infectious
>    agent. Infection with HIV has been the only common factor shared by
>    persons with AIDS throughout the world, including homosexual men,
>    transfusion recipients, persons with hemophilia, sex partners of
>    infected persons, children born to infected women, and health care
>    workers who were infected with HIV while on the job, mainly by being
>    stuck with a needle used on an HIV-infected patient.
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>    Although we know that HIV is the cause of AIDS, much remains to be
>    known about exactly how HIV causes the immune system to break down.
>    Scientists are constantly discovering more information about HIV and
>    AIDS. These discoveries help people learn how to stop transmission of
>    the virus and help people infected with HIV to live longer, healthier
>    lives. One important question to answer is why some people exposed to
>    HIV become infected and others do not. Scientists believe it is most
>    likely because of how infectious the other person is and how they are
>    exposed. For example, more than 90 percent of persons who were exposed
>    through an HIV-infected unit of blood became infected. So we know that
>    blood-to-blood contact is a very efficient way that HIV is spread. On
>    the other hand, many health care workers are splashed with blood or
>    bloody body fluids and this type of exposure has caused very few
>    occurrences of HIV infection. Researchers know how HIV is spread and
>    the ways that people can help protect themselves from being exposed to
>    HIV.
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>    If you have questions about HIV infection and AIDS, please call the
>    CDC National AIDS Hotline at the tollfree number, 1-800-342-2437. If
>    you wish to write to CDC regarding this subject, please write to the
>    CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse, Post Office Box 6003, Rockville,
>    Maryland, 20849-6003.
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>         Back to HIV/AIDS Information Return to HIV/AIDS Information
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>         Back to DHAP home page GO BACK TO DHAP HOME PAGE
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>     Last Updated: June 13, 1996
>     Updated By: Technical Information Activity
>     email: hivmail@cidhiv1.em.cdc.gov
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Why are the homos forwarding the web pages to the mailing list, and why
does the moderator post every piece of "breeder-bashing" trash to the
censored list, while rejecting whatever he deems "homophobic"?

[For the record, I have serious doubts whether the HIV virus causes AIDS.]

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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