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Movie Question-Forrest Gump

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Desslok

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Did Jenny have AIDS? Her line"Forrest I have a virus and the doctors do not know what it is" got me wondering about it. The timeline would be about right late 70's early 80's.
 
so sad, at least she had little Forrest. Wasn't there suppose to be a sequel, but Hanks didn't want to be involved?
 
wow I never even imagined it was AIDS, I thought it was just one of those unknown movie illnesses that strike for maximum plot effect.
 
How convenient she didn't pass on AIDS to her son or husband.
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Originally posted by: Sid59
so sad, at least she had little Forrest. Wasn't there suppose to be a sequel, but Hanks didn't want to be involved?
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a sequel was written (gump & co)
 
Originally posted by: Spac3d
How convenient she didn't pass on AIDS to her son or husband.
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With no precautions whatsoever, an HIV positive mother will pass HIV on to her newborn in 25% of births. Having a c-section lowers the chances even more. Contrary to popular belief, newborns are most often infected during the birthing process, and are seldom infected in utero. If the mother chooses to breast feed, the numbers go higher.

Today, with proper drug treatment, less than 5% of babies born to HIV positive mothers are infected. Of course, Jenny would not have had access to these drugs, so the number we'll use is 25%.

So, if Jenny did notbreast feed, it was very likely that FJ would not be infected.

As for Forrest, you can read this three ways. Either they never had sex after they got together the last time (No chance for infection), or they used protection (negligable chance for infection), or they had sex, used no protection (fairly low chance for infection -- it's not easy for the virus to be spread female to male). Or you can read that you don't know if he was infected or not. An HIV positive person can last 10 years or more without ever knowing they have the virus.
 
I recall a "behind the scenes" documentary where the illness was discussed. AID's is what was meant to be implied, but they didn't want the film to have any sort of focus on a particular illness.
 
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