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Myths about AIDS still persist
By Tammy Batey
t rr»<»fa!d Hoponw
Kdilor* Note: This is thr fifth of ii six purl srrtrs
on AIDS /'.iff six, •ihout thr six i.il issues sin
rounding thr disease, will run next Wislnrsduy
Peggy 'Mild stir (tin t understand wliv more poo
pin still hold onto myths about AIDS Hi r son
I (i(i> dird .it 41. two years aftrr being diagnosed
.is HIV posttivr
Peggy. 70, said Tom's friends >iml family wore*
supportive and, to her knowledge, didn't believe
the myths about the disease However; Peggy has
met people who fyeheve a person (an gel AIDS In
sitting on a toilet seal that someone with has used
or by drinking from u glass an AIDS patient has
used
1 i an t understand anyone who has ears or run
read ,i little bit who doesn't know what's going
on,' Peggy said 'll they pay attention', listen and
read, they'd find out that is not trie i here’s so
much free information out there People should
take it upon themselves to ediu ale th' tnselves
Some people think it s a nasty disease that
only homo-ova,o- arid A drag usei ■. have Me-.;
people don't believe it tan happen to them
T hough MDS still c lanes live .. man\ tors
agree knowledge is power So; ,r 0 ng the tnvlhs
from the fat is about the disease is one of the best
'arms of .protection against ttontr.ii I,.';g tin' HIV
virus
Myth get AIDS from casual kissing,
p hlit toilets shaking hands, sharing foot) or oth
er forms of < a sun I contact.
I ai t 'I fa ..'dv way thi H i\' v ,ru s is transmitted
is through till tod, semen and vaginal set ref tons,
at tording to a San I rant 1st u AIDS Inundation
statement Phe virus tan also he transmitted
through the placenta Irum mothers to their un
horn I iuldren
The vimis t annul he transmitted through teats
er s.civ.i or from (usual contact with an HIV in
fected person, said Heather Penmate a former
inirsi and t urrent coordinator of tin- Atom (Tub,
a rcireation.h < Tub for people who art- HIV posi
tive
Mvlh AIDS is .( gav disease
f ail About f>8 percent of people who are HIV
positive (ontraited the virus fiv having sr\ with
another man according to a statement from the
American Red t loss However, tins means 1m
pert enl of people with the HIV virus contracted
the virus in other ways from using IV drug use.
having sex with .in infer ted person of the oppo
site sex or from a bhxxl transfusion
Although tiie HIV virus first showed up in the
guv community, guy men are no longer the group
most at risk for the v irus, Heilhrun said
Myth Men can't get the HIV virus from wom
en
Fad it is easier for men to give the virus to
women than for women to give it to men, said
Clarence Spignor. assistant professor in school
and community health However, il a woman is
HIV positive her vaginal secretions will contain
the virus and she can transmit it to a male sexual
partner
Myth If you get the HIV virus, you re going to
die
Fact There is no cure lor AIDS However,
drugs suc h as AZT and ddl are now available to
prolong the lives of people who contract the HIV
v mis, said Dr John Wilson, a specialist in mice
tious diseases at the. Kugrno Clime Some people
eve idyars or more without having any" symp
toms of-the virus
It's not too percent positive it you are HIV
positive that you will heroine symptomatic arid
it - riot mo percent positive if von arc symptoms
utii that-you're going to die," said Jim .Shoemak
- While Hire!-Clinic < oordinator
Myth If you t,ike an HIV antibody lest and test
negative, you-'re safe from the disease
Fact The test is only good lor the day it is per
formed done, Penman said The presence o( anti
bodies to the HIV v irus, which the test is used to
determine, may not appear lor three to six
months after a person's first exposure to the virus
In the meantime, a person may he unintentionally
spreading the virus on to other people1
I.v i'ii il people test negative lor the Hl\ virus
after not participating in at-risk activities for six
months, they'll be at risk il they resume unsafe
behaviors
Mvtli II you test HIV positive you have AIDS
Fac t When people test HIV positive it means
their blood contains the antibodies that light the
HIV virus, said Doug Dewitt. Willamette AIDS
Council education and outreach AIDS occurs in
the later stages ol tile disease when the immune
system is compromised and opportunistic infec
icons set in
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PrairyErth
By William Least Heat-Moon
Author of lllttc Highways
nun I ith is .1 s igorous and evalicd evocation o! the
American land, it' people. ils past, its ho[xrs The vers word
"prairyerth," an old geologic term lor the soils ol oui
central grasslands, captures the essence ol the American tall grass
countrs ()nl\ a writer ol William l east Ilea! Moon's gilts could
11ml m a single Kansas countrs the narrative ol an epic, the
nonliclion equivalent ol the great American novel
I'r.tinl ilh is rich with Chase Counts's voices past and present,
and is filled with anecdotes, gossip Iron) the bars and t ales. Native
\mencari lore, and ruelul tales ol man 's inhumanits to man and
nature anil ot nature s inuitlerence to
humanity Heal Moon recounts the slor> o! a
larm couple swept alolt by a tornado; a1 veals
and Indian recipe to avert lightning: unearths a
century old unsolved murder, interviews a
retired postmistress, a cowboy a quarryman, a
coyote hunter, a young leminisi rancher
I’t.iinl rth sels the store ol a nineteenth
century tycoon, who dreamed ol building a rail
line to China through the county, against the
memories ol a retired Mexican railroad worker
who can still recall every tie he spiked lor the
\tchison, I'opeka, and Santa l e It speaks ol
the passion ol the slavery wars ol Bleeding
Kansas and the sad late ol the Kaw tribe. and
gives us a hundred new ways to see stones,
creeks, grasses, birds, Iv.ists ,md weather
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