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...questions regarding one's history of drug use and medical history. Question 5.6 asks "for males: have you had sex, even once, with another male since 1977?" I recently learned that a positive answer to this question means that I cannot donate blood. These questions were developed by the CDC in conjunction with the American Red Cross in an attempt to protect the blood supply from HIV contamination...
...Sources: CDC; Jefferson Medical College; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
...open question as to what the effect of AZT in utero is." Not to mention that HIV can also be passed from mother to child by breast-feeding ? common enough in the Third World to render AZT treatment futile. While the researchers' ethics may be in question, the CDC is still far away from Tuskegee...
Jiang Zemin announces plans to float stock in China's state-run enterprises (TIME Daily) ... Clinton nominates CDC director Satcher to fill long-standing surgeon general vacancy (AllPolitics) ... Scots vote overwhelmingly to establish their own parliament after nearly 300 years without one (TIME Daily) ... An angry Senator Jesse Helms resists attempts to force a hearing over William Weld?s ambassador nomination (AllPolitics) ... A federal judge rules American Airlines is liable for compensatory damages because its pilots were negligent in a deadly 1995 Colombia crash (Reuters) ... U.S. Secretary of State Albright urges Israel and the PLO to end their verbal sparring...
...antibiotics simultaneously, the doctors in Michigan brought their patient's infection under control. Even so, health officials suspect that vancomycin-resistant staph will soon appear in other U.S. hospitals as well. Calling for stringent antiseptic procedures, they urged doctors to report cases of vancomycin-resistant staph promptly to the CDC...