Word: blood
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...annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks in San Francisco last week was a long-awaited opportunity for warm handshakes and upbeat talk. During the past 18 months, health professionals have meticulously tested every pint of blood in the nation's reserves for the AIDS virus. The hugely successful effort, which costs more than $50 million annually, has rendered negligible a once ominous threat to recipients of blood transfusions. But the convention proceedings got a jolt when Dr. Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute informed the assembly that an AIDS virus called LAV-II, whose presence...
...Everyone went, 'Oh God, here we go again,' " said Dr. Thomas Zuck, director of the Food and Drug Administration's division of blood and blood products. But Dr. Myron ("Max") Essex of the Harvard School of Public Health, a leading AIDS researcher, feels Montagnier's warning is premature. Essex, who last spring announced that his research team had discovered in Senegal a virus that is related to LAV-II, criticized the announcement as "unnecessarily frightening." Citing the fact that Montagnier's unpublished data were based on fewer than 100 patients, Essex said, "I don't want to put it down...
Although the AIDS virus has been found in saliva and tears, almost all AIDS transmission results from contact with the semen or blood of an AIDS victim. In semen, the virus rides as a passenger, probably in the disease-fighting white blood cells in the fluid. During intercourse, the white blood cells containing the AIDS virus alight on the mucous membranes inside the rectum or the vagina. Unlike the skin, which is an efficient barrier to the virus, the mucous membrane is a much thinner tissue and is more susceptible to infection. If microscopic tears occur in the membranes during...
Women transmit AIDS to men far less frequently. The CDC says only one- quarter of all U.S. heterosexually acquired AIDS cases are men. A woman's blood or secretions could infect a man during intercourse; the penis also has mucous membranes, but it is probably exposed to less virus. The risk from oral sex appears to be much lower than from either anal or vaginal intercourse...
...which includes the singing and guitar music as well as the dance of Andalusian Gypsies, has a language all its own, so simple that it seems to bypass the brain and speak directly to the heart. In the words of the playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, it "knows death, knows blood, knows love." And that awful but powerful knowledge is what this revue seeks to convey. As its title indicates, it presents the real, raw stuff, without nightclub flourish or Jose Greco's acrobatic flamboyance...