Chlamydia at the Presidio Preschool Accused child molester Michael Aquino, high priest of the Temple of Set in San Francisco, on chlamydia, a sexually-transmitted disease discovered in children attending the Presidio Preschool: "Partway through the investigation a stir was created when the media announced that several of the children had been diagnosed with Chlamydia. However (a) the Army later announced the tests were unreliable, (b) no retesting of the children was ever conducted, (c) Chlamydia can be transmitted by direct contact with any mucuous membrane [such as mouth or eyes], (d) no testing of the children's parents for this disease was conducted, and (e) reportedly Hambright did not have this disease. [For that matter, as verified by our own medical records, neither my wife Lilith nor I has ever had it either.]" The Department of Health and Human Services (http://www.4woman.gov/faq/stdchlam.htm) reports that Chlamydia, like HIV, is contracted NOT by casual contact, as Aquino argues, but "during sexual intercourse via the exchange of bodily fluids through mucous membranes in the anus, mouth, and genital areas." In other words, bacteria from the mucouse membranes of a preschool child would have to come in contact with the mucous membranes of a carrier to transmit the disease. Michael Aquino's statement that the children were not retested must be false, because once a child is on medication, another routine test is necessarily conducted to determine if the child is still infected. Besides, according to Health & Human Services, several "laboratory tests can confirm presence of chlamydial infection and distinguish it from gonorrhea." So restesting IS routine to arrive at a proper diagnosis. Further, "because there are often no symptoms for chlamydial infection, people who are infected may unknowingly pass the bacteria to their SEXUAL partners." Aquino has yet to explain how SEVERAL children from the Presidio came to have sexual contact with the same someone suffering from chlamydia infection outside the school. This is unlikely. There is a much higher probability that someone at the school transmitted the disease through sexual contact. "Chlamydia," reports the DHHS, accounts for "an estimated 4 million new cases occurring each year.... Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), a serious complication of chlamydial infection, has emerged as a major cause of infertility of women of childbearing age. The annual cost of chlamydial infections and their sequelae is estimated to exceed $2 billion." The children obviously paid dearly for attending the Presidio preschool, whether or not Aquino or his wife had the disease. Someone at the base, possibly Gary Hambright who suffered from AIDS, DID transmit the bacteria. � Alex Constantine
