-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html From: PHILLIP SISSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: SIGHTINGS AIDS Is Passed By Oral Sex Link 2-1-00 Date: Sunday, February 20, 2000 11:19 AM SIGHTINGS AIDS Is Passed By Oral Sex Link 2-1-00 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A significant number of gay men are becoming infected with the AIDS virus through oral sex -- an activity that was rumoured to be safe, researchers said on Tuesday. A study presented at a meeting of AIDS researchers found nearly 8 percent of recently infected men in the San Francisco area were infected through oral sex. Dr. Beth Dillion of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and colleagues at the University of California San Francisco surveyed 102 gay and bisexual men recently infected with HIV and found oral sex was the only risky behaviour that eight of the men had engaged in. "It's certainly sobering news," Dr. Ronald Valdiserri, deputy director of the CDC's HIV prevention centre, said in a telephone interview. "We've known ... that there was a risk of HIV transmission through oral sex. Of course scientists indicated that they thought it was a much smaller risk compared to anal or vaginal sex. In this study, the eight men who were infected, many of them indicated that they were not aware of the risk." Valdiserri said even if a behaviour carries a low risk, if someone does it often enough, it adds up to a high risk. "Low risk does not mean no risk," he said. "I think some investigators have actually shown that gay men might be substituting oral sex for anal sex in an attempt to curb transmission." The study showed this could be a deadly mistake. Valdiserri said the news was even more disappointing because the men involved lived in San Francisco -- a city where the gay community has been very actively involved in studying AIDS and lobbying for prevention and treatment. "Here are men from San Francisco, a city which probably compared to many American cities has more community-based resources for gay men ... and these men did not really understand that receptive oral intercourse could lead to HIV infection," he said. No one should really be surprised that HIV, which infects 40,000 Americans a year, could be passed through oral sex, Valdiserri said. "There is nothing mysterious about the way the virus has been transmitted in these instances," he said. "The virus is present in semen and it also present in pre-ejaculate." Having a cut or sore inside the mouth greatly increases the chances of transmission, and many people can have tiny abrasions of the mouth or gums without being aware of them. "It doesn't have to be a gaping sore or ulcer," Valdiserri said. He said the study was very carefully done, and the men were able to pinpoint exactly when they became infected. "We definitely believe that this is perhaps the most definitive study to date on oral sex transmission among gay men," Valdiserri said. The researchers did not count a man as having been infected through oral sex if he said he had engaged in any other risk behaviours. "Because of these stringent requirements, 7.8 percent may be an underestimate of transmission through oral sex in this group," the CDC said in a statement. SIGHTINGS HOMEPAGE This Site Served by TheHostPros _____________________________________________________________ Who will win the Oscars? 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