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According to the EPA, Class-B municipal waste is safe for fertilizing crops and revegetating surface mines. But, says CDC senior industrial hygienist JOSEPH COCALIS, who talked to TIME not as a CDC spokesman but as a private citizen, "I personally would not want to eat food grown with human waste." The problem, Cocalis says, is that Class-B sludge is "biologically active" when dumped. The EPA places a 30-day restriction on public access, but pathogens can survive much longer. And surrounding dumps with earth mounds won't keep out trespassers like Tony Behun, 11, who died after riding...
...series of recommended shots for the big three of childhood disease: measles, polio and tetanus/diphtheria. That?s up from 76.2 percent only four years ago. The downside, of course, lies in the remaining 19.4 percent of toddlers who have thus far eluded authorities. Although Walter Orenstein, director of the CDC?s National Immunization Program, is pleased with recent immunization efforts, he is worried about the kids who are falling through the cracks. "Between state and federal programs, the vaccines are out there, but there is a lot to be done in keeping track of kids? vaccine schedules and just getting...
Nowhere is this harsh reality more evident than among African Americans, a special focus of the conference. In 1984 the CDC reported that 50% of all children infected with the virus in the U.S. were African Americans. By 1988, African Americans accounted for 70% or more of the AIDS cases among heterosexual men, heterosexual women and children. These alarming statistics haven't got much better since then. Even now, African Americans have an AIDS incidence and a death rate that are 10 times those of whites...
...part, the problem is misinformation. Explains Dr. Helene Gayle, director of AIDS prevention at the CDC: "First and foremost is the fact that this epidemic got cast as a white disease, particularly a white gay disease, and that lulled people into a sense of denial in the African-American community." The result: too many heterosexual African-American males still think it's perfectly safe to practice unsafe sex with female partners...
...CDC is reaching out to African-American church leaders in the hope that they will use the power of the pulpit to get out the word about AIDS. Let's hope the tactic works. At this critical moment in the AIDS epidemic, what happens next will depend largely on how well we educate--and how well people listen...