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Much of this may be attributable to misuse of condoms, but such misuse is endemic to them. And the technical problems of condom use are only heightened when used by homosexuals engaging in anal intercourse. The chief AIDS epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control told The New York Times this summer that condoms fail more often during anal than vaginal intercourse because the former is likely to involve "trauma" that may rip or pull off the condom...
...blood. The slow poisoning leads to other complications, including cirrhosis, an often fatal degeneration of the liver that affects at least 10% of all alcoholics and is especially hard on women. "They die of cirrhosis earlier than men, even though they consume less alcohol," says Judith Gavaler, an epidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School...
Medical researchers remain puzzled by the syndrome. Says Epidemiologist Jonathan Kaplan of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, who investigated the 1985 Lake Tahoe outbreak: "We don't know what causes it, and we have a hard time diagnosing it." Still, notes Stephen Straus, a virologist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who has interviewed sufferers, "you have to start believing what they're describing...
...International AIDS Conference in Washington last week, it became clear that there is no immediate hope of discovering a vaccine to inoculate people against the AIDS virus. And few new drugs are on the horizon that might alleviate or cure the disease. Said Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief AIDS epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "The strides made in the molecular biology of the virus are just phenomenal. But that hasn't yet translated into something we can use to stop...
...best way to contain AIDS is through education about how to prevent exposure to the virus. Moreover, the new guidelines are being written at a time when many experts are suggesting that the threat to the general public from AIDS has been exaggerated. Says Harold Jaffe, chief AIDS epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "We really have not seen much evidence for the spread of the virus into people who are not in risk groups . . . For most people, the risk of AIDS is essentially zero...