Doug Huffman Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 http://www.promedmail.org/pls/otn/f?p=2400:1001:3655468672013241::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,89446 Sexual Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus ---------------------------------------- In the United States, an estimated 3.2 million persons are living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection (1). HCV transmission occurs primarily through percutaneous exposure to blood, and persons who inject drugs are at greatest risk for infection. The role of sexual transmission of HCV has not been well defined. However, reports over the past decade, mainly from Europe, have implicated sexual transmission of HCV among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected men who have sex with men (MSM). In late 2005, 2 HIV-infected MSM, each with acute HCV infection that was suspected to have been acquired sexually, were evaluated at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, prompting Mount Sinai to request referrals of similar patients (2). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 What is your point in making this thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Huffman Posted July 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 I thought it clear in the title, "Objective health values life objectively." Y'all can apologize for alternative lifestyles as you will, but you cannot escape the consequences of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 I thought it clear in the title, "Objective health values life objectively." Y'all can apologize for alternative lifestyles as you will, but you cannot escape the consequences of them. I see, so you're ineptly trying to make the case that 'alternative lifestyles' such as homosexuality cannot be objective values because they slightly increase the risk of contracting harmful disease number 6. I say ineptly, because your quotations cites a grand total of two cases, and the article you linked documents a grand total of 74 cases discovered over a period of five years. In any case, if I were you, I'd focus on other lifestyles choices where the chances of contracting diseases due to the lifestyle is much higher. Here, I've even gone and found two for you: Becoming a doctor or nurse and becoming a police officer. You'd better get to work convincing the apologists for these lifestyles of their objective disvalue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Huffman Posted July 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 (edited) Thank goodness that you are not me! It would be horrible of ME to prescribe another's behavior. The citation is to a professional collection, an ana if you will, of observations beyond anecdotes. I don't know what makes policeman to you. I am wearing my sidearm even as I write. Wisconsin has just passed 2011 Act 35. I qualified as EMT in about 1980 because I could. Edited July 24, 2011 by Doug Huffman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 I should hope the issue of whether or not one is wearing a firearm is totally irrelevant to whether one is a policeman, and it ought to be totally irrelevant TO the policeman even if done in public. These days, depending on locale one can get questioned, harassed or arrested for that act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Thank goodness that you are not me! It would be horrible of ME to prescribe another's behavior. The citation is to a professional collection, an ana if you will, of observations beyond anecdotes. I don't know what makes policeman to you. I am wearing my sidearm even as I write. Wisconsin has just passed 2011 Act 35. I qualified as EMT in about 1980 because I could. Apparently you missed the points of both of my posts... 1. If this is simply for your collection of observation, and you're not trying to 'prescribe' the behavior of others in posting it here, then my original question still stands; what is the point of posting it here, in this discussion forum? 2. The fact that some lifestyle or career choice exposes that person to an increased risk of something bad does not mean that the choice in question is objectively unhealthy. It simply does not follow. If it did, almost every single lifestyle choice would be objectively unhealthy, starting with choosing a career as a doctor, nurse, or police officer. Almost every action we take puts us at increased risk of something; this is why isolated facts do not provide enough context to write off entire lifestyles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grames Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 I thought it clear in the title, "Objective health values life objectively." Y'all can apologize for alternative lifestyles as you will, but you cannot escape the consequences of them. There is nothing unique about "alternative lifestyles" that uniquely causes diseases, just the particular set of diseases spread that way. Check out these alarming headlines for an STD associated with a "mainstream lifestyle". Worries About a Gonorrhea ‘Superbug’ Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea (ARG) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 (edited) What scares me is the herpes epidemic. Most people contract oral herpes when they are children by receiving a kiss from a friend or relative.. 90% of people over 50 have contracted some form of herpes! I think that Obama should address this issue. Edited July 25, 2011 by Dante Fixed link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JASKN Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 I think that Obama should address this issue. lol It is unclear to me what the thrust, so to speak, of this thread is about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superman123 Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 lol It is unclear to me what the thrust, so to speak, of this thread is about. Yes JASKN, the purpose of this thread is also ambigious to me. Please Doug Huffman can you explain to me what you are trying to say. Please put it simply and clearly. Thanks and Regards, Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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