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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: AIDS
- Message-ID: <103342@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:17:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.131625.19041@sei.cmu.edu> <1992Dec21.195641.4698@midway.uchicago.edu> <63003@mimsy.umd.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: biow@cs.umd.edu (Christopher Biow)
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- In article <63003@mimsy.umd.edu>, biow@cs (Christopher Biow) writes:
- >Could most, if not all, heterosexual transmission of AIDS be
- >attributed to anal sex? Or pre-existing genital lesions?
-
- Probably not, at least in the USA. See Peterman et al "Risk of human
- immunodeficiency virus transmission from heterosexual adults with
- transfusion-associated infections" JAMA 259:55 (1988). In short, 9
- out of 10 partners who became HIV+ denied having anal intercourse.
-
- >Conversely, can we say that ordinary vaginal intercourse _does_
- >have a significant chance of transmitting AIDS? Both ways,
- >or only male to female?
-
- In the USA, it is mostly male to female. There were a few HIV+
- prostitutes for years in the San Francisco/Oakland area, long before
- anyone realized the potential danger. Yet not one case attributable
- to them is known.
-
- In contrast, Africa follows both male to female and female to male
- patterns.
-
- >For some reason, I have _never_ seen this addressed in any
- >press reports of research on the disease.
-
- So?
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-