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Porn Actor Infected with HIV Speaks Out
Derrick Burts' positive test result forced halted porn production.
 Porn actor Derrick Burts tested positive for HIV. (Los Angeles Times) |
LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) -- The adult film actor who tested positive for HIV, prompting two of the industry's biggest production companies to halt production as a precaution, is speaking out.
Derrick Burts, 24, planned to hold a news conference Wednesday morning, calling for mandatory condom use on adult film sets.
Burts tested HIV-positive in October at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation in Sherman Oaks, the Los Angeles Times is reporting.
He had worked in both straight and gay porn films for a few months using the stage names "Cameron Reid" and "Derek Chambers."
He believes he may have contracted the virus during a gay porn shoot in Florida.
Until now, Burts has only been known as Patient Zeta.
He says he was tested at the clinic Oct. 8 and was told the following afternoon that he tested HIV-positive. His last negative test was on Sept. 3.
Burts says he gave clinic staff the names of about a dozen performers he had worked with in California and Florida in in both gay and straight films. The clinic said no one on the quarantine list tested positive.
Burts' girlfriend, also an adult film performer, was among those on the list and also tested negative, he said.
Burts told the Times that when he returned to the clinic on Oct. 23 to review the second test results, the staff told him that they had traced his infection to an unidentified performer they described as a "known positive."
Burts says he may have contracted the disease during a gay porn shoot in Florida because condoms were only used during intercourse, not oral sex.
He disputes the clinic's claim in a statement last month that "Patient Zeta acquired the virus through private, personal activity."
After Burts tested positive, two of the industry's biggest production companies -- Wicked Pictures and Vivid Entertainment -- shut down production as a precaution.
Industry actors also called for mandatory condom use on the set, which Burts says is necessary.
"It's very dangerous," he said of adult film work. "It should be required that you wear a condom on the set," he told the Times.
Straight porn performers must show negative HIV test results before filming, however, the gay porn industry does not have the same restrictions.
Condom use on gay porn sets is typically required.
Derrick Burts, 24, planned to hold a news conference Wednesday morning, calling for mandatory condom use on adult film sets.
Burts tested HIV-positive in October at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation in Sherman Oaks, the Los Angeles Times is reporting.
He had worked in both straight and gay porn films for a few months using the stage names "Cameron Reid" and "Derek Chambers."
He believes he may have contracted the virus during a gay porn shoot in Florida.
Until now, Burts has only been known as Patient Zeta.
He says he was tested at the clinic Oct. 8 and was told the following afternoon that he tested HIV-positive. His last negative test was on Sept. 3.
Burts says he gave clinic staff the names of about a dozen performers he had worked with in California and Florida in in both gay and straight films. The clinic said no one on the quarantine list tested positive.
Burts' girlfriend, also an adult film performer, was among those on the list and also tested negative, he said.
Burts told the Times that when he returned to the clinic on Oct. 23 to review the second test results, the staff told him that they had traced his infection to an unidentified performer they described as a "known positive."
Burts says he may have contracted the disease during a gay porn shoot in Florida because condoms were only used during intercourse, not oral sex.
He disputes the clinic's claim in a statement last month that "Patient Zeta acquired the virus through private, personal activity."
After Burts tested positive, two of the industry's biggest production companies -- Wicked Pictures and Vivid Entertainment -- shut down production as a precaution.
Industry actors also called for mandatory condom use on the set, which Burts says is necessary.
"It's very dangerous," he said of adult film work. "It should be required that you wear a condom on the set," he told the Times.
Straight porn performers must show negative HIV test results before filming, however, the gay porn industry does not have the same restrictions.
Condom use on gay porn sets is typically required.
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