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Article: Oral sex transmission rate is higher than expected.
- Article from:
- AIDS Alert
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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Oral sex transmission rate is higher than expected
Research debunks myth that oral sex isnt risky
Clinicians who need more proof when trying to convince HIV patients that they must use condoms during all sexual acts now can point to a study newly released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, which found that 7.8% of HIV-infected men who had oral sex with other men were infected with HIV through oral sex.
The CDC investigators cautioned that this might be an underestimate of transmission through oral sex because the study had stringent requirements for determining the mode of transmission.
CDC researcher ...