Comment CDC Has known this for years... Media has avoided (Score 2, Informative) 477
The CDC (Center for Disease Control) has presented this information for years (1998 is when I first heard it from them) at their seminars for charities that work with HIV positive persons. The mass media has apparently avoided this information even thought th CDC has presented it to them, just because it wasn't newsworthy or controversial as the deaths from HIV as they could be associated to homosexuality or to drug use (considered better shock topics). They have even known and offered to many of these HIV charity members the opportunity to have testing done to determine (and join in a group study) possible suceptability to HIV based on this. All this for years...