The incubation period is thought to be years. I've heard no predictions of any more cases. No direct link has been established between BSE and Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease. HIV has killed over two hundred thousand people in the United States. The current estimate of worldwide HIV infection is 21.8 million people, with projections as high as 70 million within five years.
More people become infected every day.
There are simple ways to prevent its spread, the easiest being teaching. People need to know what HIV is, how it is transmitted, and how to prevent its transmission. Yet for all the hysteria and media time about BSE, networks still won't show ads for condoms, there are no mandated guidelines for teaching about HIV in every school, the subject is taboo in our media, and lobbyists and researchers have to fight for research funding. It's even hard to find good safe sex information on the Web. HIV doesn't care if it gets media coverage.