Is tuberculosis a behavioral disease?

[brickitybrack]

If only people would stop behavior that causes TB, like breathing behavior, and coughing behavior, we wouldn't have tuberculosis in third world countries like Kazakstan. Someone teach those people to hold their breath already!Point being that people have sex. It's a fact of life. We need to come up with a better AIDS prevention plan than sending ministers to Africa to tell millions of people that they can never have sex with abstainance programs.Okay, I apologize for the wording of that last note. I wasn't advocating that people have sex with abstainance programs, that wouldn't be possible because abstainance programs aren't physical in that way, but you get the idea.Having sex in a particular country in Africa that has a high percentage of HIV positive folks is "high risk sexual behavior". Are you saying htat EVERYONE in those countries can't have sex?Last I checked, you could get AIDS from having sex with one partner, do you guys know something I don't?How did they get AIDS? Oh, I don't know, maybe they were born with it?Or maybe they had sex with another person before me, I can only control my own behavior, and if you think that I'll pass up the love of my life just because she isn't a virgin you're living in the 1600's. Did you check your wife for a hymen before the wedding?

[scipro3001]

No, to the people on yahoo, they are only "behavioral' if you can acquire them through having sex.But then again, it appears not many know how to read the studies they post as evidence.I think its God's fault, if he wouldn't have made sex feel so good, no one would want to do it! But what other reward could he have offered for having to sit through the inhumane torment of having to listen to a woman babble about herself when all you want is to drink your jack and coke?

[Joe T]

Given that most ministers have trouble with abstinence, I'm not surprised it's a failure around the world, are you?Sex is like grass growing through concrete---you can poison it, pave it over, do what you will, but it is part of human nature and no pious Christian is going to make it go away by covering their eyes and pretending it doesn't exist.

[Schmorgen]

Funny that the jackass who asked that question referred to the Nazis- I wonder if he is aware of their policy toward gays?Can you imagine the hospital ward?"I have AIDS.""How did you get it?"Is emphyzema a behavioral disease? Cancer? Type 2 diabetes?I thought we treated the disease, not the lifestyle.

[redrum7]

*At first I didn't understand how one had to do with the other until I realized. Both should wear a Condom.[?] only in different places?This is one time those in Rio Linda may figure this one out!