in the movie forest gump did forest get hiv or aids from jenny,since she did sleep around with other guys?
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Jenny has what appears to be AIDS, which is a type of HIV in the movie.. sad story.. :-(.. in the book this doesn’t happen though.. only in the movies... jenny doesn’t get or die from AIDS until the sequel of the book Forest Gump.. as for forest he shows no signs of having it in the movie... but you’ll have to read the sequel books to find the end of this story...\n\n-shamar
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There are several theories to this, and none of them are proven. The most commonly accepted theory is that of the 'hunter'. In this scenario, SIVcpz (like HIV, but the S stands for Simian) was transferred to humans as a result of chimps being killed and eaten or their blood getting into cuts or wounds on the hunter. Normally the hunter's body would have fought off SIV, but on a few occasions it adapted itself within its new human host and become HIV-1. \n\nIf you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact your local department of public health. Free testing is available, as well as risk reduction, and post-infection counseling.
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He doesn't remember, but it was with a woman.  He's had HIV for over 10 years.\n\nHe basically dipped his stick into too many skanks....
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I'm HIV positive - and I'm going to respond to this from personal experience. \n\nI got HIV from having unprotected sex with someone who didn't know they were positive. It's a b*tch, but it happens. \n\n\nI think my favorite sentence in this question is the final line, "This organization is endorsed by many doctors and celebrities." Well - if Britney Spears says it's true - then I BELIEVE IT! Honestly, people - let's be intelligent. \n\n\nThe reason why some people are fine is because some people are different. Everyone's immune system responds differently to EVERYTHING - some do very well in fighting it on their own; others get sick very VERY quickly. The people who aren't on drugs and are doing fine - they should thank God for the blessing of a uniquely equipped immune system. \n\n\nI am like millions of others who are not so fortunate. My virus has it in for me: as in, I was infected and VERY sick almost immediately. I knew I was positive within a month, because for someone who NEVER got sick, I got TAKEN OUT! So,  I went to the doctor, and surprise!! (Lesson: use protection every time, kids)\n\nMy "viral loads" never went down (they were above 750,000 - above 80,000 is BAD), and my CD4 counts never came back up on their own (they were 274, then 208). I was never diagnosed with AIDS (CD4 of under 200), because after two months of seeing the trend, my doctor decided to strategically skip a month's blood test to see my counts before putting me on medication. She didn't want to have to give me that diagnosis. \n\nI went through a variety of tests (Both Genotype and Phenotype analysis of my particular virus) and went on a drug regimen in August of 2005. \n\nWithin a month (A MONTH!!) my viral load was down to 644, and my CD4's were 240. My drugs kicked the virus' butt, and I had ZERO side-effects. \n\nIn the past year I've been taking my drugs twice a day (basically, it ranks a few steps higher than brushing my teeth - but it's just as routine) and I FEEL GREAT!!!\n\nI love my drugs, I love my doctor, and I love the scientists that figured out a way to KEEP ME ALIVE. \n\nThe longer there are groups out there who perpetuate a myth that this, or that, or whatever - created this SYNDROME; and other ways than prescription medication can keep the virus from creating millions of copies of itself and breaking down a person's immune system, PEOPLE WILL DIE. \n\nThe scientists who studied AIDS in the 80's didn't decide that HIV was the virus that caused AIDS - they were convinced by the FACTS of how this virus operated, and the RESULTS of tests in the lab. \n\nI don't know what drugs you're on - but the ones I'm taking are the only reason I'm typing this.
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I'll try to remember.  Richard slept with the professor's ex-wife.  When he asked her to a concert the next night, she said no, but when the professor asked her to the same concert, she--after playing a little bit of hard to get--said yes.  Pete (I think that's his name?) started working at a coffee place, and couldn't handle the entertainer, so he smashed the guy's guitar after Pete dropped a coffee pot, it shattered, and the singer addressed the crowd: "Let's have a hand for our overcaffienated brother behind the counter." \nI can't remember her name, but the girl who went to the paper about Pete's girlfriend being pregnant?  She got a job as a proofreader for the paper.\nNatalie and the cute guy with the curly hair went on a date.  Just before they slept together, Natalie told him it was the first time she'd been with anyone since she jumped.  In response, he whispered, "come here," held her and kissed her.\nThe professor Sarah was sleeping with came back and told her how much he missed his wife, how much he loved Sarah, etc.  He was unshaven and a bit of a mess.  She told him he needed to go home.  Then, she broke up with the guy she'd been seeing.  Later, she went on to the O.A.R. concert with Richard, being careful to specify that it was not a date.  The video diary assignment was to discuss "Sex vs. Love"--are they the same?  Do you need one to have the other?  etc.  The guy with the curly hair, after sleeping with Natalie, said in his diary that he thought he'd just made love for the first time in his life.  Sarah was sitting on her kitchen floor taping hers, and she determined that she was the kind of girl who needed love to have sex.  \nI hope that helps~!
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no total rumor.  There is no way for that man to get aids.  he is married he aint gonna pull a kobe and he has kids so he would have found out long ago.
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I think she's a whore for cheating with Brad while he was still married to Jennifer Aniston (who is so much more talented then the 2 put together) and she used the African government to keep away the poparazzi (sp?) like they don't have other things to worry about other than Jolie's spawn. btw her lips are like the size of fecking Texas.
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It is hepatitis C. And no it is not the same as HIV/AIDS. \n\nIt is treatable...I believe Pamela Anderson and Naomi Judd are two "famous" people living with the disease.\n\nThe most important thing you can do for yourself is to educate yourself. Not knowing about your disease, does not allow you to know what precautions and treatments are available.
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You're right...The movie Forrest Gump did have AIDS in it--"Jenny", his love, got AIDS from her alternative lifestyle (unprotected sex, intervenous drug use). They don't say "AIDS" in the movie, but she describes the symptoms and the lack of any treatment, which is what AIDS treatments started with back in in the early '80s. Obviously there is no cure--yet. Many people, including some in the government, thought that AIDS was an affliction of the Gay Community and drug users and wasn't important for "normal," heterosexual people, that is, until the heterosexual community started developing the disease as well. Children developed AIDS from being born to HIV positive mothers who got the disease from their unfaithful husbands, young people contracted it from their dentists, etc. It is a horrible disease and brought a real halt to promiscuous behavior that had predominated in the 1960s and 1970s. There was quite a stigma about AIDS for many years and there was a real fear about "catching" it from casual contact with people. Television tried to deal with this with television movies, sitcoms, news broadcasts, 60 Minutes program...the list goes on and on. Mainstream movies about AIDS continue this tradition. When Liz Taylor comforted her gay friend, Rock Hudson, who was a dying of the diesase in 1985, I know many were shocked that she would put herself in such danger (she's still alive, as far as I know, 20+ years later). "Magic" Johnson, the basketball player, came out with the news he was HIV-positive and the media had a field-day with it--other BB players were concerned that he might have infected them by sweating on them. Princess Diana was quite instrumental in getting the issue of compassionate care of AIDS victims to the forefront. She too defied "common sense" and comforted AIDS patients by holding their hands and stroking their hair, etc. These images were broadcast worldwide. I remember as a teenager then thinking that she must be very brave. In effect, she was much more informed than the rest of us. My 2nd cousin died of AIDS. Hope I've helped...Good luck with your assignment!
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It would have been impossible to contain through quarantine. Since there are no symptoms of HIV, there would have been no way isolation would have stopped the spread when it first came here. \n\nBesides, isolation camps for certain groups are more of a left solution. Just ask the Japanese Americans who were around during WWII.\n\nThe problem, as usual, lies with personal responsibility. Words that Clinton taught us not to believe in, I know, but there it is. The blood supply is now safe from HIV, so how are people still contracting it?\n\nDrug use, promiscuous sex. Eliminate the behavior, stop the spread.\n\n\nuh-oh, I think I smell one of those conspiracy theory people here. For the record, I've lived in FL since 1976 and the only virus I've ever caught was this raging Pro Bush conservative-itis that gets stronger every time I read answers like that.
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OK, HIV cant be transmitted thru mosquitoes cause first: HUMAN... it exists only in humans.  It cannot exist anywhere else.  Remember that when the virus is outside person (that is in the blood) it dies, and only "reactivates" when it comes in contact with blood again (eg an open wound).  Therefore It cant live in a mosquito, cause its not human.  The article below may help.\n\n\nInsects\n\nFrom the onset of the HIV epidemic, there has been concern about transmission of the virus by biting and bloodsucking insects. However, studies conducted by researchers at CDC and elsewhere have shown no evidence of HIV transmission through insects--even in areas where there are many cases of AIDS and large populations of insects such as mosquitoes. Lack of such outbreaks, despite intense efforts to detect them, supports the conclusion that HIV is not transmitted by insects.\n\nThe results of experiments and observations of insect biting behavior indicate that when an insect bites a person, it does not inject its own or a previously bitten person’s or animal’s blood into the next person bitten. Rather, it injects saliva, which acts as a lubricant or anticoagulant so the insect can feed efficiently. Such diseases as yellow fever and malaria are transmitted through the saliva of specific species of mosquitoes. However, HIV lives for only a short time inside an insect and, unlike organisms that are transmitted via insect bites, HIV does not reproduce (and does not survive) in insects. Thus, even if the virus enters a mosquito or another sucking or biting insect, the insect does not become infected and cannot transmit HIV to the next human it feeds on or bites. HIV is not found in insect feces.\n\nThere is also no reason to fear that a biting or bloodsucking insect, such as a mosquito, could transmit HIV from one person to another through HIV-infected blood left on its mouth parts. Two factors serve to explain why this is so--first, infected people do not have constant, high levels of HIV in their bloodstreams and, second, insect mouth parts do not retain large amounts of blood on their surfaces. Further, scientists who study insects have determined that biting insects normally do not travel from one person to the next immediately after ingesting blood. Rather, they fly to a resting place to digest this blood meal.
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As Alabama Girl says above, the only case was David Acer. Unfortunately he died of AIDS before the cause of transmission could be truly established. However, considering how difficult it is to transmit HIV from dentist to patient, and considering that (as I remember) a couple of the patients were having negligible treatment. it has been hypothesised that he deliberately infected them. Sort of a revenge on the world. There was a book written about it (don't know the name).
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The HIV virus has been a living virus in the animal kingdom since time in the beginning. Your pet cat has the virus. What happen was this - as this world over populated and people began to starve, corruption in every corner of the globe, people ate parts of the "monkey" , the brains in fact, for the first time, and that is how the virus entered mankind. Now through bi-sexuality - it spread, and you know that you can be in any part of the world in less then 4-hrs - that is how it travelled into our countries. There will never be a cure for it, as man does not have the DNA link to the animal DNA - the only cure is safe sex, and unfortunately that is not working, or sinking into the heads of our young people. 4 young people and hour, under the age of 34 - (14-34) male and female, contract the AIDS virus an hour! in North America!! we are not far behind the 3rd worlds which have millions dying and dead from this uncontrollable disease. A generation of children are now orphans with both parents dead from HIV. Pass it on and only have safe sex. Good question - Check out "Bono's" site, big web and lots of info on this subject and on feed the world.
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I have two friends who are both HIV positive both are gay males. One had full blown aids when I first met him and the other had just found out.This was about 4 years ago. I myself just found out 2 years ago that I am HIV. I always thought I was very careful sexually. I almost always used condoms. I suspect I got it from sharing needles(very stupid, I know)while shooting up cocaine which I'm happy to say I have not touched in a year.
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AIDS originated in monkeys that's why. people didn't have sex with monkeys then.
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Lack of sex education, and also it was denied in many countries that HIV virus led to AIDS. Using a condom is often though to be showing a lack of masculinity, and in some countries, sex with a young virgin girl was thought to cure AIDS
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Yes you could be, and just because he doesn't screw around with whores does not mean anything, he could have slept with a girl that had only slept with one other man in her life and that man that she slept with first could have been sleeping with whores, and passed something on to this girl. Just remember.... Everytime you sleep with someone you are sleeping with everyone that they slept with and the people that their partners have slept with and the people that those partners slept with,and the ... it doesn't end. It is scary to be having sex with men you dont know. Go see a doctor, and ALWAYS use prtection when you are having sex. By the way, since your anus is tighter and does not accomaodate a penis as well as your vagina, you are more likely to tear which increases your risk for contracting STD'S including HIV.