What a surprise ?

[RICHARD]

I didn't go thru the thread in it's entirety so I'll keep this short.

I would suggest a book written by Randy Shilts, The Band Played On.

It's a story about the AIDS epidemic and the people who managed to track down it's origins and the people who pooh poohed the growing illness.

AIDS is a disease of opportunity.

No more, no less.

I could catch AIDS from giving mouth to mouth to an accident victim, getting splashed with blood during a fist fight, using a dirty needle or having sex.

Because it lies dormant for such a long time, the exact point of infection could never be discovered.


Years before it became known as AIDS the medical community
labeled the symptoms as FUO, fever of unknown origin.

Back in the late 70's I worked with a nurse who died of FUO...

Years later I realized that he did have AIDS and even though the medical community didn't know what was going on, It was pretty scary to see someone, anyone waste away in that fashion.

It's not just a gay disease.....It's a people disease.