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Education key
to fighting AIDS

Dear Editor:

You can't get AIDS
through casual contact. You
can’t get it off a doorknob
or a toilet seat. You can’t get
it ina swimming pool. You
can’t get it from sitting next
to a person with AIDS, or,
under normal conditions,
from working in the same
office or even living in the
same house. You can't even
get it from their sweat, their
saliva or their sneezes.

No one has. Of the more
than 12,000 cases in North
America, there is not a single
demonstrated case of AIDS
being transmitted in any of
the ways I've mentioned. In
fact, epidemiologists don’t

even classify AIDS as a con-
tagious disease. Infectious,
yes - but only through the
exchange of body fluids such
as blood and semen.

While the virus thought to
cause AIDS has been found
in saliva and tears, it is not
transmitted chat way. Even
health-care workers who
have punctured their fingers
with needics and been ex-
posed to the blood of AIDS
patients have not been found
to be infected, :

The good news - if there is
any in this tragic epidemic -
is that AIDS is not going to
wildly infect those who take
simple precautions and stick
to safe-sex guidelines.

That is not good enough,
of course, for those who
wish to use the disease as an
excuse for homophobia.
Curiously, they recommend
that only homosexuals be
publicly identified or
quarantined; they omit he-
mophiliacs, those who have
had blood transfusions, and
those in other risk groups.

At the moment, we have
only two tools with which to
fight AEDS: education and
compassion. The epidemic
will only be prolonged by
those who choose to spread
ignorance and fear. We
don’t have time for that.
Bob Tivey
Project Director
AIDS Vancouver

West Van inaction

not understandable

Dear Editor:
That West Vancouver Ci-

ty council won't pass serious”

laws restricting dogs, and
that it will provide only
token enforcement of the
feeble laws in place, I quite

‘understand .— criticism is

hard to take, and the criti-
cism from dog owners who

need parks and playgrounds ,

as lavatories for their dogs is

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too high a price to pay to
protect children’s health.

What is utterly beyond my
comprehension, however, is
that City council continues
to allow livestock breeders
who prefer to live in the city
to slash their neighbors’
property values by operating
dog kennels in their back
yards,

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I would have expected that
even a city council that
couldn’t be brought to
believe in microbes had
already heard about dollars,
and that the sight of one
Person causing serious
economic loss to several
others would have struck it
as unjust.

Lubomir S. Prytutak
West Vancouver

Hatred
leads to
trouble

Dear Editor:

I was appalled at the at-
titude of Mr. Collins in his
column about immigration.

What makes Canada such
an interesting country is the
variety of cultures. 1, for
one, welcome these im-
migrants for they can teach
us what they know, and
vice-versa.

Mr. Collins citicized Otto
Lang's ideas that a popula-
tion increase would create
labor, by saying that the
American South sowed the
seeds of future social

disaster by encouraging the
slave trade. This is an absurd
comparison to the situation
in Canada.

In the first place we are

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