Re: Diseases
the reason for its explosion is that A) it takes a long time for the disease to show its symptoms. it can stay in the body for a lifetime, just multiplying, but your body’s well equipped to fight it, so there is no such disease stage. so even though you’re not exhibiting any symptoms, you’re still infectious. B) it was a fairly new disease. no one knew what it was, how it was tranferred from one person to another, how to prevent it etc. C) a lot of travel, between africa and the rest of the nation, which possibly included prostitution. D) and this might be controversial, the more openess to gays and lots of people having unprotected sex. note, i’m not saying it’s a gay disease. most likely it was tranferred by the same man having sex with women and men, but since there was no education at that time about the disease, it all just added to its spread.