This is a re-post from my old blog based on a newspaper article from mid-2005.
Of course the real news behind this is not a new strain of AIDS, but the fact that somewhere, someone in the mainstream media actually let a story about promiscuity, homosexuality, drug abuse, and AIDS get past the filters of Political Correctness. I presume one more newspaper editor has been added to the pool of available talent–unemployed.
In the Washington Times article, the two patients are referred to as CTO1 and CTO2. CTO1 has been determined to be “Patient Zero” for the new strain of AIDS.
United Press International – The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper
“Mystery AIDS strain ‘patient zero’ found
By Ed Susman
Jul. 26, 2005 at 7:33AM
… The original source of the infection is a patient in Connecticut who infected the New York man during anonymous rectal intercourse at a sex club in the city on Oct. 22, 2004. [emphasis added]
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At the club, CT01 had insertive anal intercourse with ejaculation into the New York man. CT02, a 41-year-old man who has lived with CT01 for 12 years, had insertive anal intercourse without ejaculation with the same man.
[Doctor] Blick [who is treating CTO1] said, however, the New York man’s use of crystal methamphetamine and highly promiscuous lifestyle may be more of a factor in his low CD4 count than the strain of virus.
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He also agreed the New York man probably developed a rapidly progressing form of the disease due to his frequent use of crystal meth, along with his promiscuity. “Who knows what damage that drug does to a person’s immune system,” he said.
The New York man had sex with at least 10 other partners before he discovered he was infected. Blick said it is possible other infections with that strain may show up later when those men are tested — if they became infected.
The next time you hear that AIDS is about to explode in the straight community, the appropriate response is a yawn. For twenty years, the global pandemic has been “just around the corner”. Only if “global” is interpreted as “promiscuous homosexual drug users”.
