AIDS 1981? to present
Although it pales in comparison to the total deaths caused by influenza, malaria and other epidemic diseases, AIDs is on the list of the worst plagues of all time. Since 1981, 25 million deaths have been attributed to the disease.
Like Malaria, the tragedy is that the deaths are entirely preventable, since AIDS is transmitted, not through the air, or food or water, but through known human behaviors. Daddy was given tainted blood during heart surgery, they did not know what the germ in his blood was. He called it 'dirty blood', it was AIDS.
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About Me
- ELODEE JOHNSON
- Fargo, North Dakota, United States
- On the east coast, a friend is riding her bicycle on the board walk. In Texas, a friend teases about driving the rag top and the warm air. Arizona offers notes from a snow bird as she walks before it gets too warm. We are heroes in this upper midwest as we rejoice in simply seeing pavement. Yet, all of us together, enjoy the stories of our history whether we put them in a blog or not. Most of us can read others journals and bob our heads in agreement. It is a small world, after all. Nine hundred plus postings and growing.. ej
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