Did forest gump have aids

[Triadkd]

I have asked everyone I know this question and they all look at me like
Im pretty sure thats what jenny died from and they had unprotected sex. Come to think of it his son probably has it as well

 

[BeserkerHilf]

i thought she had cancer

 

[Triadkd]

I dont think so. Prostitute and I think she did heroin as well.

 

[The Chairman]

You're obviously confused with Philadelphia. In that film, Tom Hanks had AIDS. Not in Forrest Gump.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

i just looked it up, she did have AIDS.

and i do see where you're coming from.

 

[The Chairman]

i just looked it up, she did have AIDS.

She did?

 

[Triadkd]

Im not confusing the two. Jenny had aids and then had unprotected sex with forest. This led to her giving birth to their son who may also be infected. This is just something that has bothered me for a long time.

 

[The Chairman]

Im not confusing the two. Jenny had aids and then had unprotected sex with forest. This led to her giving birth to their son who may also be infected. This is just something that has bothered me for a long time.

Oh, I apologize.

 

[The Kid]

What? No.... that's just really messed up if it's true she just left forrest with aids.

 

[cryptic name]

jenny died of aids. there's that whole thing where she talks about having soem kind of virus and the doctors don't know what it is. plus it makes sense when you take into account the life she had been leading in her late teens and twenties

 

[blind_fury]

Gump's child was concieved 3 years earlier long before Jenny had AIDS and that was the last time he had sex with her.

No Forest Gump did not have AIDS.

close thread.

 

[Matt]

Exactly. Jenny recieved AIDS from shooting Heroine. This scene is after they had sex for the last time.

Forest Jr. on the other hand may or may not be at risk.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

But did AIDS make the "jump" to straight people yet? I haven't watched the movie in years, but from what I remember it seemed that she was in that bad period during the early '80s when AIDS was only found in gay men. If she did die of AIDS, both Forrest's should have it, considering she died when little Forrest was what 5 or 6 and AIDS takes longer than that to fully take effect.

 

[Matt]

But did AIDS make the "jump" to straight people yet? I haven't watched the movie in years, but from what I remember it seemed that she was in that bad period during the early '80s when AIDS was only found in gay men. If she did die of AIDS, both Forrest's should have it, considering she died when little Forrest was what 5 or 6 and AIDS takes longer than that to fully take effect.

Wow, Amazingfantasy.

You do know AIDS was never exclusive to gay people and was just a bad scientific theory proven wrong. Right?

 

[cryptic name]

Wow, Amazingfantasy.

You do know AIDS was never exclusive to gay people and was just a bad scientific theory proven wrong. Right?

it wasn't exclusive, but it was much more prevalent in the gay community, partly because aids is so heavily tied in with the disco lifestyle, which started out popular among homosexual clubs before it became popularized in the mainstream.
at the time it was also less common for homosexuals engaging in promiscuous lifestyles to use protection, hence a greater proliferation of aids.

 

[Anita18]

Since they had sex only once, there was a possibility, but a fairly low one. Giving AIDS to your newborn requires that the newborn swallow some of the er, mother's blood (sorry to gross everyone out) and since Forrest Jr was ubersmart, there was a possibility he knew not to do that. But yeah, not all kids born to HIV+ mothers get the virus. Blood isn't ever shared between mother and child in the womb.

 

[bluejake01]

In fact very FEW children born to HIV+ mothers actually contract it. It is also much harder to spread AIDS from a woman to a man than it is for a man to spread it to a woman. Forrest did not have AIDS, nor did junior...read Gump and Company if you want to know what happened after the first book.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

uh, dudes, hate to ruin your super-kewl dicussion.
but she died of cancer.

wait...she didn't?

what the hell......?
my world is turned upside down.

 

[KenK]

In fact very FEW children born to HIV+ mothers actually contract it. It is also much harder to spread AIDS from a woman to a man than it is for a man to spread it to a woman. Forrest did not have AIDS, nor did junior...read Gump and Company if you want to know what happened after the first book.

What was Gump & Company about? And were there ever plans to adapt it into film?

 

[JackBauer]

Everyone has AIDS!

 

[green]

Im not confusing the two. Jenny had aids and then had unprotected sex with forest. This led to her giving birth to their son who may also be infected. This is just something that has bothered me for a long time.

Why does it bother you?

 

[Pink Ranger]

In fact very FEW children born to HIV+ mothers actually contract it. It is also much harder to spread AIDS from a woman to a man than it is for a man to spread it to a woman. Forrest did not have AIDS, nor did junior...read Gump and Company if you want to know what happened after the first book.

That's all true, there are even woman who are HIV-positive who conceive and bear healthy children without infecting their men or children. Even in Africa (using that as the nearest-case scenario to a woman having the virus untreated and undiagnosed as the movie would suggest) the chance of HIV spreading to the baby is about 50/50. Which is still shameful, because with Western medical attention the chance is actually below 5%, which means this disease ravaging Africa is well within our current level of scientific knowledge to stop it.