Article: FOR AIDS, ORAL SEX IS NOT SAFE SEX


United Press International
02-01-2000
For AIDS, oral sex is not safe sex

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Oral sex is not safe sex -- especially
in the context of AIDS.

Researchers said Tuesday they have documented that about 8 percent of
new infections with the virus that causes AIDS occurred in men whose
only risk factor was performing oral sex on other men.

"I think we can extrapolate the findings in this study to say that
oral sex is not safe sex for heterosexual partners as well as men who
have sex with men," said Dr. Frederick Hecht, assistant professor of
medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

At the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic ...

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