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How often do these things happen? The last outbreak was in the 90's wasn't it?


The last active performer to test positive I can think of was Tony Montana (1999?). There don't appear to have been any secondary infections. No telling where he got it but assumptions is that it came from outside porn since no other positives could be found.

Before that was the Marc Wallice outbreak in 1998. Tests were mandatory then as now but Marc was faking his tests. Rumors suggest he may have been HIV+ for many months or even a year. There were 6-8 positives at that time, all women, but no confirmation tying them all to Marc (Delfin and Jordan McKnight tested positive the year before and may not have been related).

John Stagliano tested positive in 1997. No secondary infections and John says he got it from a private encounter with a Brazilian tranny.

My memory gets fuzzy before that but Barbara Doll turned out HIV+. So many contradictory rumors here I’ll repeat no more, but there appear to have been no other related infections in porn. I think she may have retired a few months before? No clue where this came from.

At around the same time – 1995? – Roxanne Hall had a false positive test. This leaked out before all of the confirmatory testing showed she was in fact HIV-. In that era test specivity (rate of false positive rejection) was not nearly as good as it is now so this is believable – you’d expect a couple of false positives per hundred tests at that time.

Anal, especially anal creampies, are a lot more common now than before and that increases the risk (maybe substantially; I can’t find current risk estimates). This means that a modern outbreak is likely to spread further before being contained if early-testing technology doesn’t improve.

That’s a remarkably good track record in my opinion. Unfortunately success breeds complacency and in any case the risk can never be reduced to zero.
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