=v= This Is What The Sodomites Have Inflicted On The World

"Thrasher - The Anonymous Remailer" wrote in message
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I WONDER WHAT THESE PERVERTED HOMOSEXUALS FEEL WHEN THEY READ OF
THE MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS THE HAVE MURDERED AROUND THE WORLD
BECAUSE OF THEIR EXTRAVAGANTLY IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR

http://aids.about.com/cs/aidsfactsheets/a/hivhis.htm

The History of HIV/AIDS

Your Guide to AIDS / HIV.

In July 1981, the New York Times reported an outbreak of a rare form of
cancer among gay men in New York and California, first referred to as
the "gay cancer" but medically know as Kaposi Sarcoma. About the same
time, Emergency Rooms in New York City began to see a rash of seemingly
healthy young men presenting with fevers, flu like symptoms, and a
pneumonia called Pneumocystis. About a year later, the CDC (Centers for
Disease Control) link the illness to blood and coins the term AIDS
(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). In that first year over 1600
cases are diagnosed with close to 700 deaths.

As the number of deaths soared, medical experts scrambled to find a
cause and more importantly a cure. In 1984, Institut Pasteur of France
discovered what they called the HIV virus, but it wasn't until a year
later a US scientist, Dr. Robert Gallo confirmed that HIV was the cause
of AIDS.

Following this discovery, the first test for HIV was approved in 1985.
Over the next several years medications to combat the virus were
developed as well as medicines to prevent infections that flourish when
the immune systems is damaged by HIV and AIDS. By the end of 1987,
there were 71,000 confirmed cases of AIDS, resulting in over 40,000
deaths.

So where are we 20 years later? Thanks to an ever-changing array of new
anti-retroviral drugs and improved funding for early medical care, AIDS
related deaths in the US are declining. People are healthier and living
longer. But, in other parts of the world, the AIDS epidemic rages on.
Some estimate that 40% of persons in the sub-Sahara region of Africa
are HIV infected. Many of these people don't realize they are infected,
resulting in the infection of others, adding to the spread of the
disease. Another grim reminder of the epidemic is the number of African
children orphaned by AIDS. Streets are clogged with children who have
lost their parents to AIDS, have no food, and no place to go. And with
no money available for expensive HIV drugs, the epidemic is expected to
get much worse, with estimates of 20,000,000 infected over the next 5
years.

Could anyone have foreseen that the mysterious illness affecting a few
gay men in 1981, would become the epidemic of the 20th. century? We
have made much progress, but still so much needs to be learned. Until
the the epidemic continues.