daly@nybcb.UUCP (daly) (11/18/85)
>From cmcl2!harvard!bbnccv!bbncca!rrizzo Thu Nov 14 13:05:13 1985 >Subject: Shift in ADIS risk groups? >Newsgroups: net.motss,net.med > >BTW, here's something a friend in New York recently told me: among >NEW CASES of AIDS in NYC, gay and bisexual cases account for just >over 50%, while the rest are heterosexual (mainly intravenous drug >users and their spouses/lovers/offspring). If true (& my friend's >well-informed), this would represent a nearly 20% drop in gay and >bisexual cases, among NEW case, that is. For years the proportion >of gay/bisexual cases has maintained a steady 70-71%. > >Ron Rizzo Working in the New York Blood Center, I read net.med & net.motss because I'm curious as to what people are saying about AIDS. The above article implies that there is a shift in the AIDS risk group. I just thought I'd share the something with the folks in this group. The Vice-President Of The Greater New York Blood Program gave a lecture on AIDS about a month ago & passed out some literature the Blood Program put together & this is how the stats on risk groups go: As of 9/9/85 there have been 13,074 cases of AIDS reported. Homosexuel/Bisexuel 9482 (73%) Intravenous Drug Users 2189 (16%) Hemophiliacs 98 ( 1%) Heterosexual Contracts of Above Groups 130 ( 1%) Child with parents with AIDS or at risk for AIDS 117 ( 1%) Transfusion with Blood Products 225 ( 2%) None of the Above 883 ( 6%) 883 is a large number to be "None of the above", but what can I say, I didn't prepare the stats. I just figured folks out there might be interested.
kbb@faron.UUCP (Kenneth B. Bass) (11/19/85)
In article <197@nybcb.UUCP> daly@nybcb.UUCP (daly) writes: >>From cmcl2!harvard!bbnccv!bbncca!rrizzo Thu Nov 14 13:05:13 1985 >>Subject: Shift in ADIS risk groups? >>Newsgroups: net.motss,net.med >> >>BTW, here's something a friend in New York recently told me: among >>NEW CASES of AIDS in NYC, gay and bisexual cases account for just >>over 50%, while the rest are heterosexual (mainly intravenous drug >>users and their spouses/lovers/offspring). If true (& my friend's >>well-informed), this would represent a nearly 20% drop in gay and >>bisexual cases, among NEW case, that is. For years the proportion >>of gay/bisexual cases has maintained a steady 70-71%. >> > >Ron Rizzo >Working in the New York Blood Center, I read net.med & net.motss because >I'm curious as to what people are saying about AIDS. The above article >implies that there is a shift in the AIDS risk group. I just thought I'd >share the something with the folks in this group. > >The Vice-President Of The Greater New York Blood Program gave a lecture >on AIDS about a month ago & passed out some literature the Blood Program >put together & this is how the stats on risk groups go: > > As of 9/9/85 there have been 13,074 cases of AIDS reported. > Homosexuel/Bisexuel 9482 (73%) > Intravenous Drug Users 2189 (16%) > Hemophiliacs 98 ( 1%) > Heterosexual Contracts of Above Groups 130 ( 1%) > Child with parents with AIDS > or at risk for AIDS 117 ( 1%) > Transfusion with Blood Products 225 ( 2%) > None of the Above 883 ( 6%) > >883 is a large number to be "None of the above", but what can I say, I >didn't prepare the stats. I just figured folks out there might be interested. I wonder how many of those "None of the above"'s are actually "One of the above"'s but just won't admit it (for their own personal reasons :-)). Just proves that statistics don't always prove everything. "It ain't necessarily so" ken bass linus!faron!kbb