Word: groopmans
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...everyone infected by the virus will develop AIDS. "There is clearly a spectrum of outcomes," says Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School. While some individuals will develop the full-blown syndrome, others will simply manifest the flulike symptoms of AIDS-related complex (ARC), a condition marked by swollen glands, weight loss and weakness. While no patient has been known to recover from AIDS, there is new evidence, according to Dr. Jeffrey Laurence of Cornell Medical College, that some ARC patients do get better...
...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...
...Robert C. Gallo, chief of laboratory tumor cell biology at the National Cancer Institute in Washington, who worked with Groopman in isolating HTLV-III in saliva, said yesterday that the implications of Groopman's work are serious...