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| Threat of Aids pandemic among heterosexuals over |
| 2008-06-11 |
| 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. I wonder if his name was considered a job qualification. 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. A commonsense conclusion reached by many less educated people years ago. Another example where wisdom is inversely proportional to education. Dr De Cock said: "It is very unlikely there will be a heterosexual epidemic in other countries. Ten years ago a lot of people were saying there would be a generalised epidemic in Asia – China was the big worry with its huge population. That doesn't look likely. But we have to be careful. As an epidemiologist it is better to describe what we can measure. There could be small outbreaks in some areas." But it's a lot better for grant funding to describe disasters we can barely imagine. Now that de Cock has milked the system for a quarter century, he is ready to retire to his chateaux on the Riviera. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #7 The heterosexual aids crisis reached its expiration date is 1989 with Fumento's book: http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Heterosexual-AIDS-Distorted-Partisan/dp/0895267292 |
| Posted by: Slolugum Tojo8008 2008-06-11 23:26 |
| #6 Note the close parallels with Global Warming. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-06-11 20:25 |
| #5 Reminds me of the old Sam Kinnson joke. Oh, Aids in heteros now. 'Show me one! Just one! Say it! Say it!" |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-06-11 17:05 |
| #4 Being 'uptight and white' [behavior, not necessarily the color of one's skin,] seems to be a prophylactic to the disease. Just as people figured out a hundred years ago not to drink water that others piss into in order to avoid the scourge of Cholera, altering human behavior or maintain certain 'Puritanical' ones apparently has benefits. And remember kiddies, Time, Newsweek, et al were pushing and screaming hetero pan-epidemic back in the mid-80s just like their latest pet crisis, human induced global warming today. One of the consequences is that AIDS medical research grew to match cancer research in funding even though ten times as many people were dying due to affliction of cancers. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-06-11 16:03 |
| #3 Well, just following demographic studies it has been quite obvious that if you are a while circumcised male over 40 with no history of drug abuse, sex with men, or frequenting street walkers (call girls are generally safe, the drug ho street walkers are where the risk is) and have never been to Africa or had a blood transfusion then your statistical probability of being HIV+ is approaching zero. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-06-11 14:27 |
| #2 "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 Edited for accuracy. Unlike the MSM's "editors." |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-06-11 14:18 |
| #1 Well, if Doctor De Cock sez so, it must be official... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-06-11 13:28 |