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Socialist Organiser1983 1983-01-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) was a very rare skin cancer affecting elderly men of Mediterranean ancestry or young blacks from Tropical Africa. Since 1979, Cough, several hundred youngish, healthy American men have been found to have KS, and already nearly half have Labour democracy and the sis!
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Also since 1979, several hundred have caught pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii, a bacterium related to the one that causes tuberculosis. This pneumonia has also often been fatal.
The link is that some 85% of victims have been gay or bisexual men.
Previously, both diseases had been observed in transplant patients. Their immune defences had been suppressed with drugs to prevent rejection of the foreign organs.
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Diseases which exploit such loopholes in the body's defences 'are called "opportunistic" and many others have been found in gay men, such as a type of lymphoma fa cancer of the immune system), fungal and protozoal infections, and infections of viruses from the herpes group.
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Socialist Organiser no.114 1983 Page 12
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