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Similarly, the sex therapists argue that the chance of catching an AIDS infection from donated blood is not 1 in 40,000, as the blood-bank industry now claims, but 1 in 5,418. They derive that figure from the highly inflated statistic of 3 million AIDS virus carriers. Even then, they do not allow for the fact that 80% of the nation's 18.8 million blood units come from repeat donors, who have a much lower rate of infection...
...most misleading of the authors' assertions, however, fall in the chapter titled "Can You Catch AIDS from a Toilet Seat?" They accurately report that the risk of infection from a source other than sex, contaminated needles, blood or the womb is practically nil. But they proceed to describe in vivid detail how it might be "theoretically possible" to contract AIDS from, among other things, contact lenses, a salad in a restaurant or instruments in a doctor's office. The farfetched examples are so memorable that the caveats are quickly forgotten. Worse, the therapists call for mandatory AIDS tests...
...make in-depth field inspections of those airlines. One bit of suspicious evidence has already turned up: apparently the first indication of cocaine use by a commercial pilot who was involved in a fatal crash. The National Transportation Safety Board said it discovered traces of the drug in the blood and urine of Pilot Steve Silver, whose Continental Express commuter plane crashed in January near Durango, Colo., killing nine...
...AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, may help explain why some AIDS carriers can go on having unprotected sex for years without passing the virus to a regular partner. Although it is known that enough of the virus appears in the bloodstream shortly after infection to spread the disease via blood transfusions, sexual transmission is a different matter. The new study, of 24 hemophiliac AIDS carriers, shows that despite repeated sexual contact without condoms, the wives or steady female partners of these men generally remained free of the virus for several years. But when signs of severe immune deficiency began...
...study published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association offered other explanations for why some people become infected after sexual exposure and others do not. Of 25 husbands and 55 wives of patients who acquired the virus from blood transfusions, only two husbands and ten wives became infected in more than two years. None of the couples used condoms. Although a higher proportion of wives than husbands contracted the virus, the difference was not considered statistically significant...