Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Florida when, according to Hahn, Bakker and his companion, Evangelist John Wesley Fletcher, had intercourse with her, a PTL staffer then attempted to do the same, and Bakker later asked the third man, "Did you get her too?" Said Falwell: "That made my blood boil." Falwell-installed auditors subsequently discovered that the $265,000 in hush money had been siphoned from PTL accounts through a false billing...
This week Ronald Reagan, who has mostly been silent about AIDS, finally offered his opinion -- and the result could mean that blood tests will be requested from millions of Americans. During a meeting of the Domestic Policy Council attended by both Bennett and Koop, the President expressed bewilderment about objections to testing. "Why should we handle this any - differently than we handled any other epidemic?" he asked. "We have an obligation to protect innocent people." The President's remarks, said one participant, "were in the form of an inquiry, but it was obvious he was making a statement...
While heterosexual transmission is possible, it does not happen easily. In a CDC study of spouses of AIDS patients who were infected by contaminated blood transfusions, researchers found that wives became infected 16% of the time and husbands only 5%. Some 10% of the people studied had more than 200 sexual contacts with an infected partner and still did not pick up the virus...
Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control revealed that three hospital workers had contracted the AIDS virus after their skin came in contact with infected patients' blood. The three, none of whom is known to be in an AIDS high-risk group, are among the first health workers infected by means other than contaminated needles. One, who suffers from acne, was splattered in the face and mouth with blood when a stopper popped off a tube. Another, an emergency-room worker, applied pressure to a patient's bleeding arm with her chapped hands. A CDC epidemiologist said that such cases...
RECOVERING. Johnny Cash, 55, craggy-faced, gravel-voiced country singer (I Walk the Line, A Boy Named Sue); from exhaustion, brought on by high blood pressure, during a concert in Council Bluffs, Iowa; at his home in Hendersonville, Tenn...