WHO: Threat of AIDS pandemic among heteros was bullsheiss

[DesertFox]

A quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.

In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO's department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.

Dr De Cock, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career leading the battle against the disease, said understanding of the threat posed by the virus had changed. Whereas once it was seen as a risk to populations everywhere, it was now recognised that, outside sub-Saharan Africa, it was confined to high-risk groups including men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, and sex workers and their clients.

More (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/threat-of-world-aids-pandemic-among-heterosexuals-is-over-report-admits-842478.html)

[DesertFox]

Well, duh.

We knew enough about AIDS to say this by the mid1990's, as I did in a letter to the editor in Puerto Rico, where I then worked.

[Naturalized-Texan]

Well, duh.

We knew enough about AIDS to say this by the mid1990's, as I did in a letter to the editor in Puerto Rico, where I then worked.
Yep. And the CDC had also reached that same conclusion several years ago.

[DesertFox]

One wonders when Dr Cock loses his job for not going along with the panic mongers.

[S-T]

Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO's department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.

Must... resist... making... comment... on... name... being... ironic... given... subject... matter...

[buckeyepete]

Oh, you mean like.......'a stiff dick has no conscience?'...........:evilgrin:

[DeclinetoState]

One wonders when Dr Cock loses his job for not going along with the panic mongers.
I think it's Dr. de Cock.

I shudder to think what the name of de nurse might be.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Anything like "de plane, boss, de plane"? :smirk:

[DoctorDoom]

It never WAS a problem, as Michael Fumento demonstrated 18 years ago.

The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS (http://fumento.com/myth.html)

[DeclinetoState]

There are enough dangerous if not deadly STDs for promiscuous heteros to give each other. Whether AIDS is another one or not, everyone should keep their equipment to themselves and their partner.

[gnome]

Heck, I remember a Bloom County joke on this very issue back in the late 80s

As best as I can remember:
Milo runs into the editor's office: "Hey, Boss! Remember that front-page story about the upcoming heterosexual AIDS epidemic? It's not happening!"
Editor: "Quick! Print a retraction on page 43!"
Milo runs out, "Stop the presses!!!"

[PaulRevere]

Using this "crisis" as a template, in about ten years they'll admit that Bird Flu was a phony issue.
In twelve they'll admit that global warming was a farce.

[CONSERVATIVE HERO]

Whereas once it was seen as a risk to populations everywhere, it was now recognised that, outside sub-Saharan Africa, it was confined to high-risk groups including men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, and sex workers and their clients.
Gotta love the typical, subtle, leftist BS.

Allow me to translate the PC terminology. What he's saying is that AIDS is primarily a killer of queers, junkies, and whores/sluts. He's just saying it in a way which deliberately avoids acknowledging the immorality and shame inherent to all of the above. "Sex workers?" :rolleyes:

/PC on: Blah, blah, blah. 'Aids is confined to reproductive stimulation technicians.'

[gnome]

I can comment on the "men who have sex with men" terminology.

It relates to the difficulty encountered in studying the at-risk demographics, where subjects would refuse to identify themselves as gay or bisexual, but still report sexual encounters with other men. Rather than waste time arguing the point they named the category "men who have sex with men" (or MSM) to keep the discussion focused on the behavior rather than how to label their sexual identity. A good choice IMO.

[Rhino]

...and sex workers and their clients.Dat da PC way of sayin "whore"?

[DesertFox]

Well, kinda. But it gits complicated. If you a crack troop and you a sex worker, then yeah, whore or ho describes you.

But say you carry a richard around and you a sex worker. Then it's questionable whether you are a ho.

Or luss say you a crack troop but you like horses. ... You can see the difficulty. :D

[Rhino]

Or luss say you a crack troop but you like horses. ... You can see the difficulty. :D:lol: Id rather not see that!

[DesertFox]

Squeamish? :D





Me, too