Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul Cameron, a Nebraska psychologist and self-professed authority on the disease. Asserting that "more people on this campus will die from homosexuality than anything else short of thermonuclear war," Cameron called for an immediate quarantine of all gays, prostitutes, and intravenous drug users whose blood carries the virus linked to AIDS...
...speaker at the forum). This is simply wrong. AIDS is known to be transmitted only through intimate sexual contact, blood transfusions, and the sharing of hypodermic needles. AIDS is not transmitted casually, and I for one cannot think of any "social behavior" that could expose one to the virus, virus...
...dispel the presumptions behind a scheme like Paul Cameron's. First, AIDS is hard to get. Medical authorities refrain from offering absolutes, but there has yet to be a case of AIDS transmitted through casual contact. Secondly, homosexuality is not a cause of AIDS. AIDS is caused by a virus, not by sexual preference. There are some sexual practices which seem to facilitate the transmission of AIDS, and concerned individuals should educate themselves of these risks...
Public health officials say the virus infects at least another million Americans, five to 20 percent of whom will develop AIDS within five years. The disease is most prevalent among male homosexuals, intravenous drug users and hemophiliacs...
...disease breaks down the body's natural immune defenses, eventually causing death in every case. However, not every person who carries the virus automatically develops AIDS symptoms, scientists have found...