<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Art Deco</b> <<a href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><font size="4">Medical authorities are not quite in agreement with
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Wayne --<br>
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A disease that reduces one's average lifespan by fifteen or so years,
or that one survives for twenty years, is not "terminal." It is
"chronic." Other chronic diseases, like Hepatitis C and malaria, have
similar lethality profiles, can be transmitted through bodily fluids,
and are not illegal to transmit. You will not be arrested for
transmitting your tuberculosis or leprosy. Typhoid Mary is immune from
prosecution.<br>
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And HIV will most likely not kill new HIV+ cases today. Now, because
HIV depresses the immune system and because the majority of HIV drugs
(nucleoside analogues in particular) have effects that may be
carcinogenic. However, the most fatal effect of HIV -- AIDS -- is
almost entirely preventable.<br>
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-- ACS<br>