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thanks for the explanation. it worries me that anyone thinks this is common knowledge amongst a more-or-less programmer community. It worries me even more that
by latch 15y ago
thanks for the explanation. it worries me that anyone thinks this is common knowledge amongst a more-or-less programmer community. It worries me even more that perhaps it is, and I'm just ignorant.
- carbocation 15y agoAny time I see a comment like yours, the correct response to your question is almost always, "It's a system problem." If we aren't effectively disseminating knowledge about an important public health risk, we're not putting ourselves in a winning position.
- Shenglong 15y agoThis was taught in my school system, but not in such depth. They focused on prevention, rather than recognition, and we had to rely on old faithful Wikipedia to tell us the rest.
- araneae 15y agoAn additional piece of information- you're approximately 4,000% more likely to transmit HIV during this early stage infection because of this high viral load. Some research estimates as much as 50% of all new infections come from people in this early infectious window.
- rdl 15y agoWhoa. I knew about the window, but NOT that it was much more contagious during the early window. Thank you!
- gmazzotti 15y agoHere is an excellent video that explain in detail this that in the early stages it is much more contagious http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_pisani_sex_drugs_and_hiv_let_s_get_rational_1.html http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_pisani_sex_drugs_and_hiv_... and others IMPORTANT commonly unknow details that change totally how to fight to the virus.
- masterzora 15y agoI only learned about it the first time I got tested. If this is the case among most people, a self-test like this could be dangerous in that a lot of people who've never been tested would be likely to start using it. If I'm abnormal, though, I'm curious where most people know it from.