Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mark proposes to screen the blood of everyone in Massachusetts for the AIDS-associated virus, LAV/HTLV-III, and then to have carriers who meet some ill-defined eriterion of "sexual promiscuity" quarantined on an island in Buzzard...
...Testing of the sort that Dr. Mark proposes is not feasible and if it were would not provide useful information. The blood tests currently available cannot accurately identify infectious carriers of the AIDS-related virus, LAV/HTLV-III...
...been transmitted by coughing, snee/ing, spitting, doorknobs, tabletops, combs, toilet seats, or any casual or accidental contract, and will not be so transmitted in future. Period. There exists no AIDS risk of which current medical knowledge is not aware. If current medical knowledge is completely applied--if all donated blood is tested for the virus (as it is in Massachusetts), and people refrain from exchanging body fluids, especially during sex, and from sharing hypodermic needles--the spread of HTLV-III from person to person will be reduced to zero...
...promising results to date in the use of this new category called immunotherapy. In an unusual "special report," published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Steven Rosenberg and his NCI colleagues described a complex technique that enables doctors to turn some of a patient's own white blood cells into "killer cells" that attack tumors...
...whom standard treatments had failed. Crucial to the experiment was a potent natural substance called interleukin-2 (IL-2), one of a variety of chemical messengers called lymphokines that help control the activities of the immune system. Studies have shown that IL-2 is capable of transforming certain white blood cells into powerful, anticancer killer cells. Using an elaborate blood-separating apparatus, Rosenberg and his team withdrew white cells from each patient and treated them with IL-2. After incubating for three or four days, the activated cells were injected back into the patient, along with more...