Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most maddening -- and frightening -- aspects of the AIDS epidemic is that no one knows how many people have been infected with the deadly virus. It can lie dormant in the body for years before producing symptoms. U.S. health officials have estimated that between 950,000 and 1.45 million Americans have picked up the virus, but that is based on spotty data. Admits a federal AIDS expert: "It's just hard to take those numbers seriously...
...there is a set of numbers that may deserve to be taken seriously. Joel Hay, a health economist for the Hoover Institution at Stanford, has used a statistical tool called "back calculation" to analyze data on AIDS infections. His surprising conclusion: about 640,000 Americans carry the virus. If he is right, the epidemic, while still devastating, may be only half as widespread as generally believed...
...satisfied again with the spectacle of nature and living close to it, with homemade entertainments and being with one another doing good work on good land? Ed Sidey thinks they can, if there is just enough money to keep people apace of the world in education and health care, if the economic base is adequate to support quality churches, parks and streets. The fundamental values still celebrated along Greenfield's streets are as sound as ever, their loss in cities the cause of human devastation, something acknowledged now by most experts...
Others, like Ella East '93, also of Hollis, said they view the mouse infestation as a health problem...
House mice do pose a health threat, but not one as serious as some have suggested, according to Gary D. Alpert '81, entomology officer in Harvard's Environmental Health and Safety Department...