Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...featured Popadiuk's grilling, went even more smoothly. One personal touch that Reagan never got the chance to use came in answer to a practice question on AIDS. He replied by telling a story he heard from a friend about a man who had contracted the virus from a blood transfusion; within a year both the man and his wife had died. "I'm not sure I should tell this," Reagan said. "You should tell it," responded Howard Baker. "It's you. It shows the feeling you have for people in trouble, and it's touching because...
...would it work in humans? A few weeks after Zagury scraped his skin enough to let the experimental substance enter his bloodstream, tests showed that his body had produced two types of immune response: antibodies to the AIDS virus, plus specialized blood cells capable of defending against incipient AIDS infection. In laboratory tests, these defender cells were effective not only against the strain of virus from which the vaccine was made, but against a second strain as well. This finding was especially significant since the AIDS virus has innumerable strains...
proposed for millions of blood recipients...
...series of actions on the epidemic, the Federal Government advises tests for some transfusion recipients who received unscreened blood, issues a controversial education plan and approves the drug AZT for treatment of some AIDS patients. In France, a researcher has injected himself with a potential AIDS vaccine, a small but crucial step in experimentation on humans. See NATION...
Given the continuing influx of Asian performers, Ozawa's perspective is one worth heeding. "Western music is like the sun," he says. "All over the world, the sunset is different, but the beauty is the same. Maybe there is a way to make a marriage between this Oriental blood and Western music...