AIDS and You: The Lethal Relation
George Stamatopoulos
Mrs. Polychronopoulou
English 110
19 February, 1997
We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from
it without resorting to such extremes as mandatory testing, enforced quarantine
or total celibacy. But too few people are heeding the AIDS message. Perhaps many
simply don't like or want to believe what they hear, preferring to think that
AIDS "can't happen to them." Experts repeatedly remind us that infective agents
do not discriminate, but can infect any and everyone. Like other communicable
diseases, AIDS can strike anyone. It is not necessarily confined to a few high-
risk groups. We must all protect ourselves from this infection and teach our
children about it in time to take effective precautions. Given the right
measures, no one need get AIDS.
AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a
sentence of slow but inevitable......
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