Super-HIV man had sex with 100

[gilliam]

100!!!

BOSTON - The New York man who sparked fears of a powerful new strain of HIV had drug-fueled, unprotected sex with more than 100 men in the months before his diagnosis, a top researcher said yesterday.

Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in Manhattan will unveil today a case study of the unidentified man, who his team believes may harbor a mutant strain of the deadly virus.

Skeptical AIDS researchers from around the world believe the case is isolated and not the beginning of a new epidemic.

In a preview of the study, Ho said the new strain is resistant to 19 of 20 drugs used to fight the HIV virus and becomes full-blown AIDS in months, not years. The development led city health officials to send out a dire warning earlier this month.

“We don’t know if this is an isolated case or if there are more cases out there,” Ho told the Daily News.

The victim, who’s in his mid-40s, participated in wild orgies fueled by crystal meth before becoming sick, Ho said.

City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said yesterday health workers have been “working to identify [the man’s] sexual partners, and urge them to be tested.”

But he declined to say how many of those partners they’d been able to reach.

Despite the fears of a superbug, other experts have pointed out that rapid progression of HIV is not new, nor is resistance to multiple drugs.

Instead of being a new strain, the virus could have rapidly developed into full-blown AIDS because of something unique to the patient, said Dr. Douglas Richman of University of California at San Diego. But even officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have acknowledged the case is alarming.

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[shockerfan]

What is an absolute joke in this story is that this man remains “unidentified”. In a different news story, it stated the man’s identity would not be revealed for the sake of “privacy”.

This guy has been sentencing people to death (by having sex with them). This disease should be treated like the epidemic it is, and not given special treatment to conform to political correctness. If this guy had smallpox, do you not think his identity would be revealed in hopes of stopping the outbreak. Why not HIV / AIDS???

The only reason is that in the US, this disease is primarily transmitted via gay sex. Therefore, it becomes politically incorrect to actual speak out and expect that people show any kind of self-restraint. Morality aside, this is a public health issue and needs to be treated as such.

 

[Ghosty]

It’s against the law to give out any medical information on a person without their consent, regardless of their reprehensible actions. This isn’t just with HIV/AIDS either. Since the case is itself newsworthy, the man’s identity must be publically withheld.

 

[Lisa_N]

shockerfan:

The only reason is that in the US, this disease is primarily transmitted via gay sex. Therefore, it becomes politically incorrect to actual speak out and expect that people show any kind of self-restraint. Morality aside, this is a public health issue and needs to be treated as such.

Yes very true. If this were thirty years ago and the person was only passing along gonnorhea, he would have to name his partners and those partners would be notified and asked to come into public health. The homosexual activists effectively stopped that process in the early days of AIDS outbreaks. We’ve never recovered and as a result STDs that used to be under control are spreading like wildfire. We cannot get the genie back in the bottle until we get ahold of him.

Further this problem is exacerbated by the anonymous and group sex that this man (as well as others) engaged in. There be no way to identify many of these partners.

Lisa N

 

[Ghosty]

I believe that those particular people will be notified if at all possible, as that’s within the law in most places. His name simply won’t be tossed around publically. It says in the article that they are trying to contact them and urge them to be tested.

 

[shockerfan]

Ghosty:

It’s against the law to give out any medical information on a person without their consent, regardless of their reprehensible actions. This isn’t just with HIV/AIDS either. Since the case is itself newsworthy, the man’s identity must be publically withheld.

Your comment is the root of the problem. Why should a person who has recklessly and irresponsibly had sex with over 100 people giving them a death sentence enjoy privacy? The law needs to be changed.