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Despite the alarm, many AIDS experts are quick to point out that not all heterosexuals are equally vulnerable. "Any sexually active individual in this society is at some risk, but the risk is different for different people," says Gerald Friedland, associate professor of medicine at New York City's Montefiore Medical Center and a specialist in the study of AIDS transmission. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has recorded 999 cases of heterosexually acquired AIDS. Less than half (446) of the victims acquired the disease in the U.S.; most of those are women who were associated with drug users...
...rare (though not impossible) for a single exposure to the AIDS virus to produce an infection. In most cases, repeated exposure over time appears to be necessary. AIDS "may be more difficult to transmit than herpes," says Montefiore's Friedland. "A number of pieces of information suggest that you need a large amount of virus." Studies of the sex partners of AIDS victims -- people who have had hundreds of sexual encounters with carriers of the virus -- show that 40% to 50% do not become infected with the virus...
...when the disease is believed to be most contagious. Some of the family members had shared toothbrushes, razors and clothing with the patient; half shared combs and drinking glasses; 37% slept in the same bed as a patient, and nearly all had exchanged hugs and kisses. Says Dr. Gerald Friedland, who led the study: "These were households in which an AIDS patient lived in close quarters with other family members, with a lot of the kind of personal, affectionate interaction you would expect in a loving family...
...saved a hell of a lot, and I'm hoping we can do even better next month," Andrew Friedland, coordinator of the project, said after the awards were announced...
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