Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy does not represent a "purge of homosexuals." The military realizes that not all homosexuals will test positive for the AIDS antibodies, while some heterosexuals will. One study found that in certain areas of Western Europe 30-40 percent of the prostitutes had AIDS antibodies in their blood. The virus appears to be spreading through the heterosexual population as well, and people of all sexual preferences stand increasing chances of being exposed to the virus...
...individual is determined to have the antibodies only after getting repeated positives in a three-stage process involving the Red Cross blood test and Western Blot analysis. And not everyone who tests positive will be discharged. If no symptoms are apparent, the individual can remain in the service but is restricted from overseas duty. Those showing signs of deteriorating health will be given a medical discharge. Only people trying to enter the services or who have been in for less than 30 days will be automatically excluded from joining or further service...
Individuals carrying the AIDS virus pose a serious problem for the military in another way. In conflict situations all personnel are considered walking blood banks. If no blood is available for casulties, the injured are dependent on their healthy comrades to provide it. But receiving AIDS-infected blood may eventually prove fatal, although the initial injury should not have. This point alone shows that the military's concern is based on more than the unfounded homophobia associated with AIDS...
...Blood clots frequently form in an artery in the leg or pelvis, travel through the blood stream and get stuck in the arteries which carry blood from the heart to the lungs...
When treating victims of pulmonary embolisms, doctors usually wait for the blood clots to dissolve on their own, although they do prescribe blood-thinning drugs to prevent more clots from forming...