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Top 25 Odd Facts about HIV
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:52
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- Globally, 40 million people are infected with AIDS. Approximately 2.1 million of those are under the age of 15.
- HIV is the world’s leading infectious killer. To date, approximately 25 million people have died of AIDS around the world.
- French Canadian flight attendant Gaetan Dugas (1953-1984) is notorious for being identified as “patient zero” for AIDS in the U.S. Dugas claims to have had over 2,500 sexual partners across North America. However, some studies dismiss the idea that he was Patient Zero. Instead they claim that he was a part of a cluster of homosexual men who traveled frequently and were extremely sexually active.
- In May 1969, an African American teenager named Robert died from a mystery illness, which was later confirmed to be the first known AIDS death in the USA. That he died in 1969, nearly a decade before the country’s first known cluster of AIDS cases, suggests HIV was introduced and reintroduced several times to the American population. It may have initially died out for lack of a very large, very sexually active population to transmit it.
- HIV emerged from Africa and spread across the globe in less than 10 years.
- Eminent British scientist Professor Roy Anderson modeled the course of the AIDS epidemic and estimates it will take 130 years to work though the global population.
- Almost 90% of children with HIV live in sub-Sahara Africa
- Geographically, the worst AIDS epidemic is in sub-Sahara Africa, with approximately 65% of all cases located there. Almost 90% of children with HIV live in sub-Sahara Africa.
- Globally, HIV disproportionately infects and affects women. Not only are they more likely to be HIV positive, but they are also more likely to bear the burden of care and support.
- For many years, China called AIDS the “loving capitalism disease” and claimed it was a disease caused by contact with the West. In 2009, China reported that AIDS had become the country’s leading cause of death among infectious diseases.
- A young Swazi girl has a greater than 80% chance of dying from AIDS in her lifetime.
- In Swaziland, the chance of a 15-year-old boy living to 50 years is 28%. For a girl it is just 22%. Before AIDS, it was 92% and 97%, respectively.
- More than 1.1 million people in the U.S. are currently living with an HIV infection.
- Almost 1 in 5 (18.1%) of those living with HIV in the U.S. are unaware of their infection.
- Every 9.5 minutes, someone in the U.S. is infected with HIV.
- Approximately 50,000 Americans become infected with HIV every year.
- HIV affects MSM more severely than any other group in the U.S.
- More than 619,000 people with AIDS in the U.S. have died since the epidemic began. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent the majority of people who have died.
- In 2011, an estimated 2.5 million people were newly infected with the virus. Approximately, 1.7 million people died. That is 700,000 fewer new infections worldwide than 10 years ago and 600,000 fewer deaths than in 2005.
- By race and ethnicity in the U.S., African Americans face the most severe burden of HIV. In 2010, blacks represented around 12% of the U.S. population but accounted for an estimated 44% of new HIV infections.
- Unless the course of the AIDS epidemic changes, it is estimated that at some point in their lifetime, 1 in 16 black men and 1 in 32 black women will be diagnosed with HIV.
- HIV damages a person’s body by destroying specific blood cells, called CD4+T cells, which are vital in helping the body fight diseased.
- HIV is primarily spread through 1) unprotected sex (vaginal, anal, oral) with someone who has HIV, 2) sharing needles or syringes, 3) being born to an infected mother, and 4) blood transfusions.
- A person cannot get HIV from hugging or touching someone with HIV/AIDS; using public bathrooms or swimming pools; sharing cups, utensils, or telephones with someone who has HIV/AIDS; or by bug bites.
- HIV can survive in dried blood at room temperature for up to six days or for weeks if wet, such as in used syringes or needles.
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OzzieEd
And if you believe any of the absolute garbage in this article you haven’t been doing your research. Gay men use amylnitrate, or poppers, which directly causes karposis sarcoma which will land you with an “AIDS” diagnosis and get you poisoned with DNA terminating drugs disguised as anti-retrovirals. In Africa, malnutrition causes the failure of the immune system, which will land you with an “AIDS” diagnosis etc. etc. Retroviruses actually transfer genetic improvements that occur when you have an epiphany or learn of some major new concept, to your reproductive cells. So they are an integral part of our evolutionary machinery. That’s the real reason they have spent billions of dollars on propaganda to get people to believe a lie. Bill Clinton is one of the major sponsers of AIDS medications. That should tell you something?