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Article: Oral sex riskier than believed
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- February 2, 2000
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SAN FRANCISCO - Oral sex, long regarded by many gay men as a low-
risk practice, appears to be a surprisingly frequent way of
spreading AIDS.
A study released Tuesday found that oral sex was probably the
cause of 8 percent of recent HIV infections among a group of
homosexual men examined in San Francisco.
In the past, there have been occasional reports of people
apparently catching HIV orally. But health investigators have had
difficulty being certain, since gay men who have oral sex also may
engage in other, riskier sex practices, such as anal intercourse.
Now diagnostic tests allow doctors to narrow down the timing of
HIV infections. They were used in the latest study, described as the ...