""The increase for MSMs is an worsening of a raging epidemic.""

You are beginning to be a class comedy act Keith, along the lines of those guys who used to pratfall over everything in sight.

You've just spent a couple of months trying to tell us that HIV is incapable of reaching epidemic status in heteros, so how can it do so in gays?   Are they a different species?

And as for your smoke screen, I say again:-

Equate apples with apples, not submarines!

Seventy four percent is 74%!
Five hundred percent is 500%!

Whatever the numbers involved, that is the truth.

The increase among heterosexuals is 6.76 times greater than the increase among MSMs.

No amount of juggling will change that FACT, and making ridiculous comments like "infinitessimal to insignificant" merely serves to highlight the gaping holes in your perception of fact.

Every epidemic since life evolved on this planet has, at some point, passed from "infinitessimal to insignificant", but they don't tend to stop there, do they?

Don T.