Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimates that by 1991, as many as 10 million people in this country will be infected with the AIDS-causing Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) (also known until recently as HTLV-III and LAV). Researchers estimate a large proportion of them will develop the disease...
...AIDS virus is carried only by bodily fluids; it spreads chiefly through sexual contact or contact with contaminated blood, as with transfusions or shared intravenous drug needles. HIV spreads only from semen to blood, vaginal fluid to blood or blood to blood. The virus does not survive long outside these fluids and cannot be transported via food, air or surfaces such as toilet seats...
...yesterday's Crimson erroneously reported that health officials knew about 25 cases of AIDS at Harvard. It is not clear how many actual cases of the disease exist on campus, but the figure of 25 applies to the number of people who have tested positive for the AIDS-causing HIV virus...
...public should know that if they choose to, they can do early diagnosis of HIV infection cheaply, they can do it in a logistically feasible way and they can do it with a great deal of accuracy," said Dr. Robert R. Redfield of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington...
...Lawrence Miike of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment acknowledged the military's "phenomenally high accuracy rate" but added, "I'm not worried about them. I'm worried about labs that advertise, `Come get your HIV test.' I get calls from people who say they are the victims of false positives...