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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 October 2014 08:33:56AM 5 points [-]

Sharing needles and having casual unprotected sex are dangerous and foolish

Casual unprotected sex wasn't the only sexual risk-- the others were rape and having unprotected sex with an untrustworthy long term partner.

Comment author: Azathoth123 04 October 2014 08:05:08PM 1 point [-]

Also blood transfusions. It took the red cross a disgracefully long amount of time to start screening donors. Some people objecting to the screening compared it to the WWII-era separation of blood into black plasma and white plasma.