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...Inglewood, Calif. Judge Pamela Ann Rymer ruled that a person fingered by an AIDS test can be protected by the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which bars discrimination against the handicapped by institutions receiving federal funds. "For the first time, a federal court has ruled that fear of contagion cannot form the basis for discrimination against seropositives," says Mickey Wheatley of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay-rights group...
...crackdown failed. Life was literally too short to skimp on pleasure and display. Untreatable diseases made 50 years an advanced age. The slow plague of syphilis is one of the smoldering subtexts of Simon's brimming narrative. Prostitutes gave the contagion to their customers, who passed it on to their wives. If women were not rendered barren by the bacterium, there were always the risks of childbirth and puerperal fever. Women were meant to provide heirs and cement profitable agreements through wedlock...
Public reaction can exacerbate the contagion effect. Recent studies by the University of California at San Diego and Columbia University in New York City found that the number of teenage suicides increases after television news segments or dramatic programs on the phenomenon. Events last week supported that conclusion. The day after the bodies were discovered in Bergenfield, two teenage girls were found dead under similar circumstances in Alsip, Ill., a ! small suburb (pop. 17,000) south of Chicago. The bodies of Karen Logan, 17, and her friend Nancy Grannan, 19, were discovered in Grannan's car, which was idling...
...brief citing the controversial Justice Department opinion issued last June to guide federal agencies regarding AIDS-related discrimination. While agreeing that under the law AIDS is a handicap, Justice officials decreed that contagiousness is not. Therefore, they contended, it is permissible to discriminate on the basis of concern over contagion, even if that concern is groundless and irrational. In the Shuttleworth case, Broward County is using arguments that run parallel to those in the Justice guidelines. "They support what we've said all along," says Gordon Rogers, the county's attorney. If it chooses to do so, however, the Supreme...
...typical reaction, says the Georgian, was " 'Don't you ever say anything like that. If you came into my office and said that cancer is contagious, it would empty out.' " In desperation, a family member called Dr. Seymour Grufferman, a cancer epidemiologist at Duke University Medical Center, explained the contagion idea and sent him biopsy slides of the victims' tumors...