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Eric Clapton moves more gingerly. He first made his reputation as a blues player of high funk and preternatural fingering, but on From the Cradle things are clearly different. The playing doesn't blister, and the voice doesn't challenge. Something else is happening here, and it has been received with some reservation. It's a familiar argument: Clapton is too slick, too successful to have the blues, much less play them. It's as if he was being criticized for the undoubted elegance of his wardrobe rather than the unchallenged finesse of his picking...
...during pregnancy or labor, and possibly through breast feeding. The remaining routes of transmission (blood transfusion, oral sex, organ transplant, etc.) present only extremely minor risks (on the order of one in hundreds of thousands). There is an insufficient amount of the virus in saliva and even an "open" blister to present a danger of transmission. Compared to other viruses, HIV survives only a very short time outside the body. Most importantly, countless medical studies have conclusively demonstrated that HIV may not be casually transmitted through hugging, kissing, using the same bathroom as an infected person sharing dishes, or eating...
Well, I have some news for Mr. Frank--what you can't see can and will hurt you! In a more comical moment, Mr. Frank reports that Burke didn't always wear plastic gloves "even on one occasion when he had an open blister on his hand." Irresponsible, uneducated statements such as these fuel the flames of AIDSphobia which spread like wildfire and legitimate the tactics of lunatics like William F. Buckley and Jerry Falwell. This blatant disregard for the actual modes of HIV transmission is a slap in the face to those, like myself, who have devoted their lives...
According to his colleagues, Burke continued to prepare food while he was deathly ill. And according to one fellow cook, Burke often failed to use the required plastic gloves, even on one occasion when he had an open blister on his hand...
...Fever Blister...