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...federal Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta predicts that AIDS will affect between 10,000 and 20,000 children under 13 by 1992, and 80 percent of these cases will involve prenatal transmission...
...hope lies is in the fact that those babies [that CDC says will be infected in the next four years] have not been conceived yet," said Sheila B. Noone, a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and a coordinator of WITS...
...disturbing implication is that AIDS is becoming a disease of the disadvantaged. Blacks and Hispanics make up a disproportionate 40% of all AIDS cases, and that percentage is sure to rise. Says Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief epidemiologist in the AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta: "The evening-news segments about AIDS used to show gay men walking hand in hand down a San Francisco street. Now it may be appropriate to show the black child in Harlem...
...AIDS cases in the U.S. last year, only 4.9% were attributed to heterosexual transmission. And even that percentage may be overstating the danger: many of these victims, according to the CDC, were born in foreign countries where heterosexual AIDS may be linked to widespread venereal disease and other factors like malnutrition. Concludes Eve Nichols of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences: "Researchers do not expect to see an explosion of cases among non-drug-abusing heterosexuals in the U.S." In the forthcoming new edition of her book Mobilizing Against Aids, Nichols says that heterosexuals can have...
...federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta plan to study how individuals living near Hanford have been affected physically. In a preliminary estimate, CDC researchers suggested that 20,000 children in eastern Washington may have been exposed to unhealthy levels of radioactive iodine by drinking milk from cows grazing in contaminated grasslands. Other scientists are already attempting to determine the actual doses of radiation received by residents, a study that may take five years and cost up to $10 million. Concedes Hanford manager Michael Lawrence: "There is no question that releases from the plants in the '40s and '50s were...