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To: Jim S who wrote (12470)	12/9/2007 4:17:49 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

"When Huckabee wrote his answers in 1992, it was common knowledge that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact. In late 1991, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 195,718 AIDS patients in the country and that 126,159 people had died from the syndrome." Folks, that is 64.45% who died of AIDS according to CDC-----and imo that is not likely even the total number of people who had AIDS as CDC does not get all of the info unless people go to a doctor. In the early 1990's it was found that ---------- AIDS can be transmitted via contamination of one's blood by the AIDS virus------- There is a well known case in Virginia in the early 1990's that disproved the claim that AIDS cannot be transmitted by means other than gay contact------a doctor was on the road traveling in the D.C. Metro area----there was an accident----he stopped to help. That morning he had been mowing the yard and gotten some open cuts on his hands from yard work. Being a good samaritan and a doctor he stopped to help--------the man who was in the accident was bleeding. Later, the doctor and his wife applied for life insurance. They had to take medical tests as applicants. The wife was approved and he was not. In the early 1990's, there was no requirement for insurance companies to tell you why your medical tests required by the insurance company caused you to be denied----------applicants were not given the results of the tests. The doctor gradually began to feel fatigued and not knowing why. Being a doctor he did every possible test with no results-----except for the AIDS virus test----he was not gay so did not suspect this as a cause. One day he got a medical alert on a man with AIDS in a hospital in Baltimore (if I recall correctly it was Johns Hopkins Hospital). (Being a doctor, he routinely got these alerts.) Think you know the rest the man was the man he stopped to help in the accident. That sent off bells and whistles------the doctor tested for AIDS and was positive---------because the insurance company had refused to give him the medical reasons he was denied insurance he went for months not knowing he had AIDS. And, yes he died. His wife then went on a national crusade to change the laws to assure that insurance companies basing insurance on medical tests be required to release the results to the applicant. She did this state by state------the last I knew, she had the majority of the states changing their laws to require applicants to have the results. Would the good doctor have lived if he had had those test results from the insurances company? Possible. Item 2 on AIDS: In the 1980's I had an operation and was advised by the doctor that if I needed a blood transfusion during surgery there was the possibility of transmission of AIDS as they were just beginning to disqualify AIDS people from giving blood and the blood supply could not be assured----I signed a paper giving permission to transfuse----the doctor told me they had procedures in place to wash the blood but could not assure the safety. Item 3 on AIDS: In 1994-95-----a friend was put in a rehab center after knee surgery and put in a room with a man who had had a stroke obviously in bad condition. I went in to visit the friend and just happen to see the signs of AIDS on the other person as the nurse washed him. (Prior to that I would go in and handle cups etc. being the "helping type'--rearranged the man's clothes, carried water for him. ) Having never seen the signs of AIDS I did not know what I was looking at. The next day, I came and my friend said the other person said he had AIDS . My friend was upset on two levels that a healthy person had been put in a room with another person with AIDS. Also noted was that the help had given my friend this man's drinking cup-----everything was labeled and reused---------no throwaway plastic or paper cups. (Really sanitary) Well all h----l broke loose. I made an appmt with the the head of the rehab center, contacted a lawyer, wrote to Congressman, and the State---leaving no stone unturned. Wrote a legal letter to the rehab center advising that if I or my friend were to ever be diagnosed with AIDS they would have a lawsuit on their hands as the result of placing a healthy person in the room with a man who had AIDS. And, personallyl delivered with a witness with me the letter in a formal appointment. This rehab center was closed down several years later for healthcare and sanitary violations. Now, we have AIDS being transmitted in vitro due to mother's having sex with husband or friend who are HIV positive. Could it be that Huckabee was right? We isolated for polio, for TB, for leprosey so why not AIDS? mj