Oral Sex May Be An AIDS Risk　

Bangkok Post June 7, 1996  (Originally in English)

　 ＜WASHINGTON＞Oral sex easily infects adult monkeys with the simian AIDS virus — a close biological cousin to HIV — according to a new study.

　 In experiments with rhesus monkeys, investigators at the Dana-Farber Cancer Centre in Boston and Tulane University in New Orleans found adult animals exposed orally to the SIV virus became infected with the virus and developed AIDS. “On the basis of reports on humans and our study, unprotected receptive oral intercourse should be added to the list of behaviors that place people at risk for infection by HIV,” said Ruth Ruprecht of Dana-Farber.