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There is no way of determining at present who is a 'carrier' of AIDS, in the sense of being a person from whom one would be more likely to contract AIDS. There is a test to determine if AIDS antibodies are present in a person's immune system, which means that a person has been exposed to AIDS, but that does not mean that a person has contracted AIDS or that he is capable of passing it on to another person. Very little is also known about what makes people susceptible to this disease; the vast majority of people exposed...
Third, it is necessary to increase dramatically the funds for research on AIDS. This should include learning more about which cofactors might cause an asymptotic carrier suddenly to come down with AIDS, treatments for people who have the illness, and the possibilities of developing an effective and safe vaccine...
AIDS breeds panic and paranoia wherever it strikes. Those emotions, along with some legal legerdemain, have led Michigan prosecutors to charge a carrier of the AIDS antibody with assault with intent to murder. The weapon: saliva. Authorities said that Autoworker John C. Richards, 28, scuffled with four Flint, Mich., police officers when they arrested him for drunk driving on Dec. 6. The officers said that Richards became enraged, told them he had AIDS, warned that he was going to infect them and then spat at them. Richards was ordered last week to undergo psychiatric testing...
Information gathered on AIDS seems to indicate that it can be spread only by sexual contact and the exchange of body fluids. Yet it is absurd to assume that carriers of the AIDS virus--many of whom do not realize that they are carriers, and some of whom are prostitutes--will unanimously refrain from having sex. The only feasible option we have right now is to identify AIDS carriers and take steps to isolate them. Proposals of this kind go against the grain of what society deems decent, and so provoke a good deal of hubbub. What people seem...
...been discontinued four years earlier. The new Joe, downsized from 11 1/2 in. to 3 3/4 in., rang up revenues of $132 million last year. While still a conventional toy, the fighting man has a battalion of colleagues and a battery of weapons. The biggest accessory is his aircraft carrier, a 7 1/2-ft.-long behemoth that carries 100 Joes and sells...