From: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org (angry-psychos-digest) To: angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Subject: angry-psychos-digest V4 #89 Reply-To: angry-psychos@smoe.org Sender: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "angry-psychos-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. angry-psychos-digest Monday, April 5 1999 Volume 04 : Number 089 Today's Subjects: ----------------- HIV outside the body... [Rebecca Lynn Clark ] NPR -- Shameless self promotion ["Andy Shirar" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:20:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Rebecca Lynn Clark Subject: HIV outside the body... My sister the med student did a little research to clarify the issue on how long the HIV virus is "working" outside the body...: "It helps to know the context. According to my Microbiology textbook, the virus is still active outside the human body unless it is treated with bleach or something. However, this means that it can cause infection only if you stick it directly in someone's blood. It also says that "dried proteinaceous material affords marked protection" for the virus. On the other hand, HIV isn't terribly easy to catch. Even during sex, there has to be some kind of breach in the skin (or vagina, anus, etc.) for infection to occur. And even with accidental needlesticks in labs working with HIV blood, the rate of infection isn't as high as you would think (I don't remember what it is, but I think it's under 1%). The risk is much lower than most people think, but anal sex (for obvious reasons) is the riskiest, and fear is the public health Dr.'s friend; it keeps people using condoms." Rebecca Clark ACRN 99.3 caFM, Traffic Director Office: (740) 593-4909 Poetry page: http://www.pathetic.org/member-works.cgi?siteid=876026929 - -"Perfect Love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express" -Charlie Chaplin - -"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others" -Elbert Hubbard help give to RAINN: http://www.eyegive.com/html/ssi.cfm?cid=103&mid=7856 IT COSTS YOU NOTHING BUT A FEW SECONDS OF TIME! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 21:23:22 PDT From: "Andy Shirar" Subject: NPR -- Shameless self promotion Hello Pscyho's I'm one of the resident lurkers on the list and I finally decided to post something, even though it is completely unrelated to poe. I recently started writing poetry (Last December), and this is a shameless attempt to try and get some people to read them and give me some feedback. Check them out at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/6669/write/main.html Any and all feedback is appreciated (even if you tell me they suck) Thanks :) Andy Icq # 12777194 Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of angry-psychos-digest V4 #89 **********************************