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To: Poet who wrote (52)4/11/2003 1:22:11 AM
From: Neenny  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
Some how I remember thinking that Patient Zero, knew he had something and was intentional about passing it on.

Have you read any of the stuff about those in the Gay community that currently intentionally seek to become infected with the disease??

From a web search....

The Appalling Saga of Patient Zero

A stunning book traces the mishandling of the AIDS epidemic
BY WILLIAM A. HENRY III

Club Baths, San Francisco, November 1982 . . . When the moaning stopped, the young man rolled over on his back for a cigarette. Gaetan Dugas reached up for the lights, turning up the rheostat slowly so his partner's eyes would have time to adjust. He then made a point of eyeing the purple lesions on his chest. "Gay cancer," he said, almost as if he were talking to himself. "Maybe you'll get it too."

-- Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On

Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, researchers have reasoned that a handful of people -- maybe even a single individual -- bore the unknowing...
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