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...Jerome E. Groopman of the Harvard-affiliated Deaconess Hospital said yesterday that he has discovered the virus known to cause AIDS in the saliva of high-risk patients...
...Groopman also discovered that healthy people might be carriers of the AIDS virus without exhibiting the deadly symptoms...
...finding suggests that high-risk, yet healthy people "could potentially pass [the virus] on" through saliva as well as through blood transfusions and sexual contact, said Groopman, an assistant professor at the Med School...
...Groopman, whose findings will be published in today's issue of "Science" magazine, emphasized that saliva would have to interact with red blood cells before HTLV-III can cause AIDS...