Holy Crap...

I am no infectious disease expert, but this article states,

"At 40 percent, Baltimore has the highest percentage of HIV-positive [gay] men among its population in a study of five cities, with San Francisco second, according to a 2005 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study."

Will somebody please tell me that this is not right. How does that happen. I am shocked when I read about areas of South Africa where up to 25% of the adult population has HIV, let alone 40% of a particular poopulation. And those are only the people who know their infected. How does this happen in the first world. We know this how this disease is transmitted, and with minor effort it is mostly preventable. The CDC states that the infection rate for anal sex is 0.5% or a 1 in 200 chance of infection per act, while oral sex is 0.0001% or 1 in 10,000. So, it's not like 40% of the population had a one night lapse of judgement. There had to have been a systematic disregard for basic safety in an epidemic. I'm at a loss. If you want to kill yourself why do it slowly?

Good gracious, I hope my grandmother never reads this. I sound like an obsessive compulsive sex fiend. I am not grandma. Don't worry, I've been good.