Which of he and his family brought the human immunodeficiency virus, the bubonic plague, leprosy, syphilis, and a few billion other communical diseases to share with all of us? And how did they manage to contract all the diseases, many of which are sexually transmitted?
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It was a family thing....like La Costra Nostra   'Our Thing'\n\nVery carefully as to not get caught and tried for terrorist activities!!!
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Of course it can.  Historically, syphillis has been passed to babies and can cause severe damage.  Now, Aids is passed to babies and causes severe damage and death.  Hepatitis B and herpes also can be passed to baby and are very serious.  Gonorrhea and chlamydia also can be problems.\n\nI would do whatever I could to help such a child.  However, it is true, as "the answer man" alludes, that God says he will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the second and even the third generation of them that hate him.  Yes, the children do suffer from the sins of their parents.  If they survive, they have a chance to get right themselves, with God.
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First off hiv needs blood.  Just simply touching something doesn't transfer the disease, they has to be broken skin and blood transfer, and then the one receiving has to have broken skin and receive the transfer on that area.  The toothbrush thing I believe was referring to people (eeewwww) that would brush their teeth and then had the brush, right then to their partner or someone else.\nIf you get infected body fluids on your person, in a faily short period of time, last time I heard it lived around 30 second, touched a cut or a orface then ya, you could, maybe get it, but that's alot of if's and maybe's.  If the disease spread that easily, we would all have it by now.  The thing I don't understand is what about mosquitoes?  They have the infected material, in their bodies, and move to the next person?  If I was to worry about something, that would be it.
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Since AIDS came onto the scene and we've ben educated about how its transferred, more people are being cautious. People who date and/or having sexual relations tend to protect themselves a lot better and a lot more than 20 years ago. Married people usually get check ups before marriage to ensure nothing is wrong with each other (AIDS, STD, etc). \n\nA family coping with someone with AIDS is no different than a family dealing with cancer. Both can be treated with meds, however, there is no cure for either. Some recover, some don't........My hubby's best friend died from AIDS, got a bad blood transfusion long before they screened things the way they do now. He lingered for many years, some good days, some bad. AIDS doesn't know homosexual, or drug user...It can happen to the average person. No one is immune to it, you just have to try and protect yourself from it and make life about life, not death!
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Multiple ways.  Consumption of an infected organism.  Physical contact.  Sexual transmission.  Via the air.  Occupying space recently occupied by the organism who is infected.  Sharing utensils.  Sharing needles.  Common usage of fingernail clippers, combs, toothbrushes, etc.
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The most accepted version: Black Death was a sort of Bubonic plague that was transmitted by rats and fleas.\n\nOther researchers have recently argued that it was an ebola-type virus transmitted also by humans.\n\nRead the wikipedia article for details.
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yes they absolutely do its a proven fact... not but a few decades ago did people think that only gay males contracted sexually transmitted diseases.... cuz well u know... dont listen to anyone who tells you otherwise.... the type of sex that gay males have (i really hope you know what kind) cause many abrasions where a virus can easily spread.... gay males are also know for having many partners because they know they can never have children like that and feel no bond towards the person..... try going on an aids/HIV website, that would probably give a lot and i mean a lot of facts about STDs ...and just something to think about if a man and a man can't have a child, and a woman and a woman can't have a child... how is that right? but whatever.. everyone is enititled to their own opinion.
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Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by a spirochaete bacterium, Treponema pallidum. Syphilis has many alternate names, including "syph", "Cupid's Disease", "the Pox" (or "great pox", to distinguish it from smallpox), "lues" (hence luiphobia, or fear of syphilis), and the "French disease."\n\nThe route of transmission of syphilis is almost invariably by sexual contact; however, there are examples of direct contact infections (see yaws) and of congenital syphilis (transmission from mother to child in utero).\n\nThe signs and symptoms of syphilis are myriad; before the advent of serological testing, diagnosis was more difficult and the disease was dubbed the "Great Imitator" because it was so often confused with other diseases.\n\nSyphilis can be treated with penicillin or other antibiotics. Statistically, oral treatment is dramatically less effective than other treatments because patients tend not to complete the course. The oldest, and still most effective, method is to inject benzathine penicillin into each buttock (procaine is added to make the pain bearable); the dose must be given half in each buttock because the amount given would be too painful if given in a single injection.\n\nAnother treatment is to administer several tablets of azithromycin (which has a long duration of action) orally under observation. This latter course may soon be obsolete, as strains of syphilis resistant to azithromycin have developed, and accounted for 56% of San Francisco infections in 2004.[1] Other treatments are less effective as the patient is required to take pills several times a day.\n\nThat's My Best Answer!
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I thought this was an amazing article. It was just published a few days ago:\n\nWASHINGTON - Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases emerged, scientists have confirmed that the HIV virus plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon.\n\nSolving the mystery of HIV’s ancestry was dirty work. Scientists employed trackers to plunge through dense jungle and collect the fresh feces of wild apes — more than 1,300 samples in all.\n\nBefore that, it took seven years of research just to develop the testing methods to genetically trace the primate version of the virus in living wild chimps without hurting the endangered species.\n\nUntil now, “no one was able to look. No one had the tools,” said Dr. Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She led the team of international researchers that reported the success in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.\n\n“We’re 25 years into this pandemic,” Hahn said. “We don’t have a cure. We don’t have a vaccine. But we know where it came from. At least we can make a check mark on one of those.”\n\nScientists long have known that nonhuman primates carry their own version of the AIDS virus, called SIV or simian immunodeficiency virus. But with one exception, it had been found only in captive chimpanzees, particularly a subspecies that in the wild populates mostly West Africa.\n\nIt was not known how prevalent the virus was in chimps in the wild, or how genetically or geographically diverse it was, complicating efforts to pin down the jump from animal to man.\n\nHahn’s team tested chimp feces for SIV antibodies, finding them in a subspecies called Pan troglodytes troglodytes in southern Cameroon.\n\nChimps tend to form geographically distinct communities. By genetically analyzing the feces, researchers could trace individual infected chimps. The team found some chimp communities with infection rates as high as 35 percent, while others had no infection at all.\n\nEvery single infected chimp had a common base genetic pattern that indicated a common ancestor, Hahn said.\n\nThere are three types of HIV-1, the strain of the human virus responsible for most of the worldwide epidemic. Genetic analysis let Hahn identify chimp communities near Cameroon’s Sanaga River whose viral strains are most closely related to the most common of those HIV-1 subtypes.\n\n“The genetic similarity was striking,” Hahn said.\n\nThe first human known to be infected with HIV was a man from Kinshasa in the nearby country of Congo who had his blood stored in 1959 as part of a medical study, decades before scientists knew the AIDS virus existed.\n\nPresumably, someone in rural Cameroon was bitten by a chimp or was cut while butchering one and became infected with the ape virus. That person passed it to someone else.\n\nThe Sanaga River long has been a commercial waterway, for transporting hardwood, ivory and other items to more urban areas. Eventually, someone infected made it to Kinshasa.\n\n“How many different transmission events occurred between that initial hunter and this virus making it to Kinshasa, I don’t know. It could have been one, it could have been 10, it could have been 100,” Hahn said. “Eventually, it ended up in an urban area, and that’s where it really got going.”\n\nSomewhere in all that spread, the virus became more deadly to people than it is to chimps, who seldom are bothered much by SIV.\n\nThe research seems to settle any question of HIV’s origin, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institutes of Health’s AIDS chief.\n\nWhen tracing a virus’ evolution, “it’s important to get as close to the source as you can,” he said. “It’s of historic interest.”
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You can't be born with a STD if your parents do not have it. An STD is not genetic. It is only spread if the mother passes it to her baby, having sex with an infected person, sharing needles with an infected person, etc. It doesn't just "appear". \n\nHIV was not started or "created" by a guy screwing a monkey. That is the lamest excuse I have ever heard, and people actually believe it!\n\nHIV originated in primates as far as is known. Possible ways for this virus to have originally infected humans include the hunting and eating of the original primate species; a bite would be another possible route. From this point, the virus ultimately spread to the rest of the world.\n\nIf a cross species jump is indeed the origin of HIV then the following conditions would most likely be required:\na large human population, \na large nearby population of a host animal, \na pathogen that eventually mutates to spread from animal to human, \ninteraction between the species to transmit enough of it to humans to establish a human foothold, which may take millions of individual exposures, \na mutation of same pathogen that can spread from human to human, \nsome method that allows the pathogen to disperse widely so it does not "burn out" in a local population of humans. \n\nSuch requirements existed in the remote past with smallpox, and also with the 20th century Spanish Flu.\n\nTwo species of HIV infect humans: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is more virulent and more easily transmitted. HIV-1 is the source of the majority of HIV infections throughout the world, while HIV-2 is less easily transmitted and is largely confined to West Africa.\n\nBoth species of the virus (HIV-1 and HIV-2) are believed to have originated in West-Central Africa and jumped species (zoonosis) from primates to humans. HIV-1 evolved from a Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIVcpz) found in the chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes troglodytes. DNA sequencing indicates that HIV-1 (group M) entered the human population in the early 20th century, probably sometime between 1915 and 1941. HIV-2 crossed species from a different strain of SIV, this one found in sooty mangabeys (an Old World monkey) of Guinea-Bissau. \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_origin#Spread_from_animal_to_human_populations
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Absolutely! Babies can be born with a few different STDS and when they get old enough to have sex with someone, they can definitely pass it to one of their sex partners.\n\nBabies can be born with herpes if the mother has it. The babies usually get it while they are coming through the birth canal and the mother is currently having an outbreak. A lot of women with herpes chose to have a C-section to prevent the baby from getting it. Also, people can get cold sores (herpes simplex one) from being kissed by someone who has cold sores, or even sharing chap stick or lipstick with someone. They can be virgins and still get this. \n\nBabies can also be born with HIV if the mother has it. Since HIV can be transmitted through blood the baby can get this from the mother since they are connected with each other through the umbilical cord.\n\nThere are also STDS that can cause some serious health problems for pregnant women. \n\nIf Chlamydia is left untreated it can cause early miscarriage or premature birth.\n\nGonorrhea can cause life-threatening complications such as ectopic pregnancy (outside the womb) if left untreated.\n\nMothers can pass syphilis to their babies by touching the syphilis sores (chancres) and then touching the baby.
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Whatever the cause they're correct. It isn't a mental illness. Eventually you may go mad, but it is an acquired perversity which can be dropped. When you introduce into the body toxic poisons and waste fluids in the body as with the type of activity that kind of life is known for, it attacks the entire body. Total breakdown. That's why it's called Acquired Immune Deficency Syndrome. You flooded the body with poison by that activity. It is not a sex act. You're not designed that way. The colon/rectal area is, simply put, the body's sewer system. Read what happened to Marat during the French Revolution. He escaped his enemies by hiding in the Paris sewers and contracted an incurable skin disease.
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I would think he came into contact with all the diseases and ailments which any other person at that time could have struggled through.  There is quite a bit of his life which isn't told.  He did hunger and thrist so by no means if he had those discomforts that he wouldn't have had other discomforts as well.
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Animals cannot get the same stds that people get.  Human STDs are specific to us - that includes crabs.  Crabs evolved to hold onto human hair - not fur, which has a different structure.  Things like human herpes, HPV, syphillis, etc. also have evolved to affect only human hosts.  \n\nThere are STDs that affect animals though.  They cannot transmit them to us and we cannot transmit our to them.  \n\nEven plants have diseases that are tranmitted through pollenation - which is one form of plant sexuality!\n\nAnimals can transmit Hepatitis A, salmonella and other infectious diseases - but they are not considered stds.\n\nAnimals cannot get HIV because that is HUMAN immunodeficiency virus.  Some animals (like cats, monkeys, apes, and others) do have immunodeficency viruses, but they are not transmittable to us and we can't get theirs.\n\nAlthough some animals share about 90-95% of the same genes as we do - that 10 to 5% is still a huge amount of genes that we don't share.
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un protected sex (gay or straight), transfusion, sharing needles with someone infected.
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This question is ridiculous. AIDS is not only an epidemic, it is a pandemic, and it is most certainly something to be scared of.\n\nThe HIV/AIDS virus is only transmissable through bodily fluids; blood and semen. For this reason, it is most commonly found in gay men and drug abusers. Gay men have anal sex, which usually results in some anal bleeding. When one man ejaculates, the semen can infect the open wounds from which the blood is emitting. This however, it not only seen in gay men, it is also a risk to women who have anal sex with an infected male. Transmission is no different.\n\nIn terms of transmission among drug abusers, this refers to drugs such as heroine which is taken with a needle. Drug abusers arent known for their cleanliness in this matter and  usually use needles which have already been used before. When the needle is used to inject someone with AIDS, it picks up the virus from their blood, when this needle is reused, the person who injects themself will most probably recieve the disease by introducing the infected blood of the first person into their own body.\n\nNo self respecting scientist...or educated person for that matter...would deny that AIDS is caused by a virus. It is a retrovirus and has been extensively studied. It cannot target any specific group of people. Those people are just more susceptible to it through unprotected anal sex and drug abuse with needles.\n\nIt is also very common for people who had blood transfusions in the late 70's and early 80's to have contracted the virus. This is because at that time there were far less restrictions on who could or could not give blood; also, not enough was known about the virus to test blood donors for the disease.\n\nI'm sorry to tell you that the AIDS in africa is the same AIDS we have here, in fact, 50% of the South African army is infected with the HIV virus. There have been more deaths in Africa due to AIDS than there have been deaths by malaria. It is more common in africa due to their lack of contraception, and their significantly less sanitary and deprived medical centers.
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(m)\n\nImmediate causes\nThe immediate causes of the epidemic are linked to HIV´s modes of transmission. These include unprotected penetrative se; transmission from mother to child before, during or after birth; and transmission through transfusions and the sharing of blood or blood products.\n\nUnderlying causes include societal denial and weak political commitment; poverty and social inequality; gender divisions; population movement as a result of famine, war and other causes; human rights abuse; and lack of dialogue about sex and sexuality. All of these make it likely that infection continues to spread.\n\nYoung people may be especially vulnerable to infection. They may not receive appropriate kinds of sex and personal relationship education. They may lack access to relevant social support including youth friendly counselling and sexual health services. Young women (and some young men) may be at particular risk through involvement in sex work and prostitution. The tendency for older and more sexually experienced men to prefer younger sexual partners also enhances their vulnerability.\n\nImmediate effects\nHIV and AIDS have serious and immediate effects within the family and household. As parents and young people are affected, household income may fall. Additional costs of healthcare, funerals and transport to clinics and hospital may have to be met. While many households develop new ways of coping, other are severely stressed. The changing balance of labour within the home may encourage less labour intensive and less nutritious crops to be grown. Widows and elderly people may lack financial and moral support when, as the sole adult within the family, they have to take on added responsibilities for the care of children and young people.\n\nIn order to help families cope, children, and especially girls, may be kept away from school. Yong people who are orphaned as a result of AIDS may face new risks. They may lack access to a stable and secure social network of adults and may be vulnerable to child labour, exploitation, prostitution and sexual abuse.\n\nThe effects of HIV and AIDS on the health sector can be dramatic. As the demand for health services rises, the capacity of the health care system to respond may diminish. Loss of staff through HIV-related illness and death may compound the difficulties facing already over-crowded hospitals and clinics. While new and potentially more effective drugs have been found, these remain out of reach of all but the richest people in the majority of developing countries.\n\nLonger-term effects\nIn the longer-term, HIV and AIDS will have a profound demographic impact. In the most seriously affected countries, life expectancy has already been reduced and past gains in infant mortality are being eroded and even reversed.\n\nAt the macro-economic level, HIV and AIDS can cause a decline in aggregate savings and investment, reduce profits and incentives for business to invest, and lead to a long-term decline in productivity and consumption.\n\nIn time, the epidemic will have a serious impact on all sectors of society. Agriculture is likely to be affected by a shift from long-term planning to short-term survival. Al employment sectors will suffer, especially those with a highly mobile workforce such as the transport industry, the armed forces, seasonal farm labour and construction work. The most vulnerable sectors of the economy are those heavily dependent on highly educated and experienced staff in short supply. These include banking and commerce, universities and schools, government and public services.\n\nAny weakening of the education system will make it more difficult for young people to receive information about AIDS before they become sexually active. A decline in the quantity and quality of education is likely to take place as teachers become ill and die. This has serious consequences for future economic development and growth.\n\nThe inter-generational consequences of HIV and AIDS are