This week I started reading the book "Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. I've only read a little past the first chapter but I can already tell I'm going to like the book. It's right down my alley. I love scary, gory stuff and this book is going to have a lot of it. I don't want to spoil the book since a lot of people are probably going to read it for extra credit but it starts out with a lot of blood and sickness. And on the back cover Stephen King says, "The first chapter of The Hot Zone is one of the most horrifying things I've ever read in my whole life... and then it gets worse. That's what I keep marveling over: it keeps getting worse." Normally I hate reading and I would just choose the other extra credit option which was a movie but this book looked so interesting that I chose the book and I'm really excited about reading it.
Did You Know:
Lesbians very rarely get HIV but it is possible. "In 2003 a 20-year-old African American lesbian from Philadelphia contracted HIV from her female partner. Most likely she was infected from the use of sex toys, "used vigorously enough to cause exchange of blood-tinged body fluids," according to the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. This young woman had no other risk factors: she did not use intravenous drugs, had never had sex with a man, never had a blood transfusion, had no tattoos or piercings and only had sex with her partner for the previous two years." (About.com) I had never really thought about it but it does seem very unlikely that lesbians could get HIV unless they inject drugs because they don't really exchange body fluids. But I think that everyone, no matter what their sexuality, should be very careful about their sexual decisions because something could happen even if you least expect it.
Works Cited:
Preston, R. (1994). Hot Zone. New York: Random House.
About.com. Can Lesbians get HIV or AIDS? Retrieved October 27, 2009, from http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbianhealth/a/LesbianAIDS.htm
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I never knew such a thing. I didn't think that exchanging blood on toys was possible. I am in total shock about this story. There is proof that no one is immune to HIV. HIV attacks everyone!
ReplyDeleteI never knew this could happen. I thought people that use drugs, are promiscouous or gay men are the ones that really need to be careful, guess not. I believe it was Teach that said if both partners in a couple are HIV positive, they should still use protection because they could each have different strains of the virus. If different strains are mixed, it can make the individual even sicker.
ReplyDeleteTalk about a shocker!!! Since this class started and reading the information we are given I never thought it was possible for women who have sex with women could contract HIV. This disease is very real and sometimes makes you second guess the people who have sex with.
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