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| HIV Infection Rate Among Blacks Doubles |
| 2005-02-25 |
| The HIV infection rate has doubled among blacks in the United States over a decade while holding steady among whites - stark evidence of a widening racial gap in the epidemic, government scientists said Friday. Other troubling statistics indicate that almost half of all infected people in the United States who should be receiving HIV drugs are not getting them... Many people who are aware they are infected intentionally do not take the drugs, believing they will damage you more than the disease. Assisted by the naturally declining virulance of AIDS, they may be correct. Eventually, AIDS should become a geriatric disease, or one that you might carry your whole life without suffering ill effect. That is the normal course for such diseases. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #1 "Naturally Declining Virulance"... Ha! What a maroon! What we are actually seeing is increased resistance to anti-viral drugs and quicker progression from infection to full blown AIDS. In some strains now... in as little as 3 months! People who are having unprotected sex and are taking advice such as that above are proving that Darwinian selection still holds provenance over sapient species. |
| Posted by: Leigh 2005-02-25 11:05:49 PM |