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re: What virus does Jenny die from in Forrest Gump

Posted on 8/20/08 at 3:37 pm to
Posted by tylercsbn9
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Posted on 8/20/08 at 3:37 pm to
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but she says shes got a virus that the doctors can't figure out


Wasn't HIV/AIDs not fully understood during the time the movie was set?

I am assuming when he meets Forrest Jr it is in the mid 80's. HIV was still pretty much a mystery at that point.
This post was edited on 8/20/08 at 3:40 pm
Posted by GEAUX DJ!
Plaquemine
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Posted on 8/20/08 at 3:40 pm to
Aids
Posted by Michael J Cocks
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Member since Jun 2007
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Posted on 8/20/08 at 3:42 pm to
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Wasn't HIV/AIDs not fully understood during the time the movie was set?

I am assuming when he meets Forrest Jr it is in the mid 80's. HIV was still pretty much a mystery at that point.


Yeah I always thought Aids. And I'm pretty sure it's possible for a mother to have it and not pass it on to their kid, but I also always thought Forest would have been subjected to it too.(remember the first time she came back and she slept everyday, I'm sure she was sick then just before she got pregnant with Little Forest)
Posted by blueboy
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Posted on 8/20/08 at 4:17 pm to
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Wasn't HIV/AIDs

Yes it was.

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not fully understood during the time the movie was set

You don't have to understand something to contract it.
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