Your Black World reports.
An adult film performer who shut down the entire pornographic film industry with an HIV-positive test has been retested as being HIV negative. A porn industry trade group is reporting that the star is OK and shooting can now resume.
Free Speech Coalition executive director Diane Duke said "The industry will be abundantly cautious as we try to nail down the reasons for what now appears to have been a false positive result on a previous test."
The actor, who is in Florida, was set to work for Mofos.com, but production stopped when the test came back positive. The name, age and gender of the performer has remained a secret.
Production has been halted since Monday. The case was found in an out-of-state clinic and then reported to authorities in California. The industry was shut down in 2010 when actor Derrick Burts was diagnosed as HIV-positive. He has since left the industry and become an advocate for condom use in pornography.
There is no indication as to whether or not the porn industry speculates that HIV tests may sometimes be inaccurate. Scientists claim that only 1 - 5 out of 100,000 HIV tests give back false positives. According to ManagingDesire.org's data gather from the CDC and NIH, the following may be causes of false positive HIV tests:
- Contamination: In a laboratory, samples may be placed in the wrong testing well; wells containing negative samples may be contaminated from adjacent positive wells; plate washers may malfunction. In addition, treated blood and blood abnormalities have been implicated in false positive reactions.
- False positive reactions have been reported in 19% of people with hemophilia, 13% of alcoholic patients with hepatitis, and 4% of hemodialysis patients.
- Pregnancy. If this is not her first pregnancy, a woman may react positively when she is, in fact, negative.
- History of injection drug use.
- Cross-reactivity with other retroviruses.
2 comments:
I would be interested in how the tests are administered before they declare someone positive. If a person has an initial positive test don't they retest that person to validate the testing? It seems a lot of bad press was made over something that didn't even follow standardized scientific practices for when failing tests do occur.
Initial screening HIV test are to be confirmed with a Western Blot test before being declared positive. Also anyone who decides to make their living in the porn industry having sex for money and doing it without a condom takes on a risk that is exceptionally high particularly when they also participate in anal activity. This is the choice they make and as such, I see no reason to be so up in arms about it. Just like any other occupation there are risk to every job and they know this going into it. This is America and if they wanna bea whore for money, you can do that in the good Ol US of A. Now for those that are forced into it, I see this as being a pity and the legal system needs to crack down and solve this problem. For those that do it willingly, they need to learn to control their freak before it controls them.
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