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Really? What is your source on that? Let's deal with facts here.
And yes, although HIV is completely preventable, unprotected sex is going to continue happening - whether you like it or not. In fact, do you realize that unprotected sex is a requirement for the human race to survive?
You're forgetting, or ignoring the fact that AIDS is 100% preventable. (except in cases of rape)
So, you have thought deeply about this subject, and concluded that any disease that you personally believe is 100 percent preventable should not receive funding for cures or treatments?
Of course, heart disease is preventable, as are certain types of cancers (lung, especially), pulmonary disorders (emphysema, adult asthma), type II diabetes, and chronic liver disease (put that booze down!).
Ignorance, alas, is not preventable. One can only hope to limit its spread.
Really? What is your source on that? Let's deal with facts here.
And yes, although HIV is completely preventable, unprotected sex is going to continue happening - whether you like it or not. In fact, do you realize that unprotected sex is a requirement for the human race to survive?
The sexual activity that most often transmits the virus can't produce children.
No doubt Ebola is a dangerous disease. What could make it worse is if people don't take it seriously, and don't isolate those who have it from the healthy.
With no profit motive, no one will invest the dollars needed to find a vaccine.
AIDS on the other hand received billions from governments due to political pressure.
Enjoy the ride!
More ignorant nonsense.
Ebola is NOT "going to wipe out 50% of the planet" - NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Geeze!
Wingnuts live in fear of EVERYTHING.
I swear, modern "Conservatism" is a mental illness - what else do you call it when people are afraid and paranoid about everything?
You're forgetting, or ignoring the fact that AIDS is 100% preventable. (except in cases of rape)
People are just ignorant when it comes to this stuff. Yes, the majority of people infected with HIV in the united states are either IV drug users or homosexuals, but the percentage of straight men and women that are infected is more then you probably think that it is.
67% of strait men and women living with HIV in the united states got it from a cheating partner. This means that if your wife that decides to bang the pool boy somehow infects you, it was 100% preventable because you should have been using protection. AMIRITE?
Don't be a fool. It can happen to anyone. A girl I went to high-school with got it from her husband because he was regularly cheating on here with gay men. Is it her fault that she was unable to tell that her husband was a closet homosexual that habitually cheated on her with high risk partners?
No doubt Ebola is a dangerous disease. What could make it worse is if people don't take it seriously, and don't isolate those who have it from the healthy.
You're forgetting, or ignoring the fact that AIDS is 100% preventable. (except in cases of rape)
Only at the cost of extinction of the species through 100% safe-sex and its' resulting non-fertization.
The biggest problem with AIDS is that infected people have little or no symptoms at first (often for YEARS) and yet are passing on the disease. In that regard AIDS is much more difficult to contain than Ebola.
The one "saving grace" (ironic as it may seem) about Ebola is the fact that it strikes very fast and that infected people cannot pass on the disease until they are exhibiting symptoms. If it was possible to transmit Ebola before one had symptoms it would be wayyyyyyyyy more dangerous and difficult to control.
Ken
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