Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Health. Addressing a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, Essex announced that he, together with colleagues in Senegal and Tours, France, had isolated a new virus that is "closely related" to the AIDS virus but has several significant distinguishing traits. The virus, which was isolated from blood samples taken from Senegalese prostitutes, is structurally similar to the AIDS virus but even more closely connected to a virus that infects certain African monkeys. Says Essex: "We believe it is a missing link" between...
...AIDS test currently in use screens blood for the presence of antibodies to the AIDS virus. About 18,800 cases of AIDS have been reported to the CDC, but doctors estimate that 500,000 to 2 million people are carrying the virus and the antibodies...
...help bring an end to the apartheid regime in South Africa," said Mendelsohn. "Freedom will come to South Africa and the question asked is how much will it cost? How much blood will it take? The answer to that is in part in our hands...
Palestinians who know the dark world of Arab terrorism say the TWA aircraft bombing is the latest work of Abu Nidal, the elusive mastermind whose followers have spread blood across three continents...
...James is an esteemed mystery novelist whose 1980 book Innocent Blood became a mainstream best seller. Her fictions often center on guilty secrets and the way the past reverberates into the present. In The Maul and the Pear Tree, James applies her narrative and analytic talents to the actual: the Ratcliffe Highway murders that took place in early-l9th century London. Although the seven killings in two merchant households were widely publicized and later inspired Thomas De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," James and her collaborator, Police Historian T.A. Critchley, found that...