The "HIV Club" report has been picked up by the Herald from the Times of India.
> From: Zenade Peu <[email protected]> > Subject: [Goanet] HIV Club? spreading AIDS in Goa See: Beware of the deadly HIV Club! http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Ahmedabad/Beware-of-the-deadly-HIV-Club/articleshow/4536716.cms ‘HIV Club’ spreading AIDS in Goa? http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=21804&cid=2 While such reports make for often noticed, sensational reading, one has to be wary before believing the same. The "urban legends" page says, in a similar context: "It is critical to maintain the disctinction between what is fact and what is folklore because, while it's accurate to say there is a grain of truth to the legends, it is simply false to assert that the recent incidents "prove them true." The perpetrators of the recent crimes were copycats, merely imitating the same stories we've all already heard (as a matter of fact, tall tales about HIV exposures culminating in the punchline "Welcome to the world of AIDS" date back at least 10 years)." http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/crime/a/needle-stick.htm FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.goa-india.org "A career is a job that has gone on too long." - Jeff MacNelly
