The question I had was: Can the virus mutate? So that it can be transmitted by air much as the flu virus.
This would dramatically change things, of course. May be a low, very low probablility event but with a very high impact and thus worth considering. arthur -----Original Message----- From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:56 AM To: Harry Pollard Cc: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] The epidemic of Aids Harry, Aids can only spread by direct entry into the blood stream -- hence via injuries or through severely abraded skin. A nurse would normally have no risk of becoming a victim but if, say, you were a bricklayer then you'd be very unwise to look after an Aids sufferer unless you wore surgical gloves while at home. Aids is not very catchable. It needs a considerable local concentration of sufferers before it gets a start. But given this *and* a great frequency of practices that causes skin abrasion then it can then spread -- after it did after Haight-Ashbury -- and keep on spreading because its symptoms are not obvious for years in some cases. Keith At 23:11 12/01/03 -0800, you wrote: >Arthur, > >AIDS is not contagious, and doesn't appear to be infectious. Shown by the >apparent absence of harm to any of the care-givers of the hundreds of >thousands of aids victims. > >Now, ain't that a funny virus? Think of a flu virus and compare. > >There was a period I remember when someone started a rumor that you can get >AIDS from mosquitos. > >Harry > > >****************************** >Harry Pollard >Henry George School of LA >Box 655 >Tujunga CA 91042 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tel: (818) 352-4141 >Fax: (818) 353-2242 >******************************* > > >--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.434 / Virus Database: 243 - Release Date: 12/25/2002 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
