Sex in the City. And various other places.
Herpes is on the rise in New York city – one in four adults carries the disease.
And HIV is on the rise across the United States – though experts say that is due to better, more accurate counting rather than to any real increase in the disease.
On the plus side of the ledger, the World Health Organization has recognized that AIDS is unlikely to become an epidemic among heterosexual (straight) populations in the West. Not that folks can all go about being careless, but it is far less common than many feared it would be. The disease is epidemic among all groups in sub-Saharan Africa.
And, just in time for the pool party season, comes news that you can't catch AIDS from swimming pool water, even if people have been engaging in natatorial naughtiness.
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Could the increase in HIV in the US also be attributable to the fact that people are living a lot longer with the condition? I don't have any data, but look at how well Magic Johnson is getting along more than 10 years after his diagnosis.
I quite agree. I also think that it has to do with all of the artificial chemicals in our foods and us messing with the genetic structure of fruits and vegetables to make them be larger and to resist diseases.
Thank you very much
HIV is transmitted through bodily fluids. Artificial chemicals in food have not been shown to have anything to do with it.
HIV is transmited though contact between people
so true, so true
A new study shows that HIV infection rates continue to rise among young gay men.
well if theyare ahving unprotected sex ......... thtas what they get!!!!
no that is not right because that is how i got clemedia
Right people need to learn how to be more responsible,and talk to their person their in a relationship with ya digg!
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