Word: blood
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WASHINGTON--In a recommendation that could affect millions, the Public Health Service recommended yesterday that all people in high-risk groups undergo periodic blood tests to check for infection by the AIDS virus...
While there remains no cure for AIDS, agency officials said, research over the past year shows that virtually all people in high-risk groups who repeatedly test positive to the blood test can infect others...
...thrust of these recommendations is that we're saying, have this serological [blood] test," said Dr. Donald R. Hopkins of the federal Centers for Disease Control...
Others include past or present intravenous drug abusers; people born in countries where heterosexual transmission of AIDS is considered common, including Haiti and Central Africa; male or female prostitutes and their partners; sex partners of high-risk individuals; hemophiliacs who have received blood clotting-factors; and newborn infants of high-risk or infected mothers...
...numb and disbelieving Swedes gathered last week to stare at the small pool of blood in the snow where their leader had been gunned down, they wept not just in grief at the death of a shrewd and compassionate man, but at their unwelcome entry into the era of political terrorism. As one commentator eloquently observed, "The time of political innocence in Sweden has come...