07-04-2007, 01:00 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally Posted by Libertine
Complete bullshit.
First, remember that the size of the HIV virus itself is unimportant. As long as the fluids that carry the virus don't get through, you're pretty much fine.
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http://misc.mailarchive.ca/health.ai...4-10/0269.html
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It has been said that since HIV in semen is associated with white blood cells (and, may be, also with spermatozoa) and since neither spermatozoa nor white cells can pass through these very small hypothetic "pores" in the latex, then HIV itself cannot pass. So these "pores", even if they do exist, could not therefore be of such importance. But this is deceptive. In fact HIV is present in sperm in two forms: associated with white blood cells and as free virus particles (xxiv); And C.J.Miller et al. have demonstrated that cell-free virus preparations are capable of producing HIV infection by the genital routexxv.
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I don't use ICQ anymore.
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