Word: hiv
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...children. Since 1981, however, doctors have reported more than 750 such cases. Now the news is even grimmer. Health officials last week announced the results of a study that showed an astonishing one out of every 61 infants born in New York City harbors antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS. Says State Health Commissioner David Axelrod: "What is alarming is that this is a higher level of infection than we had considered to be likely within the overall community...
...AIDS crisis may be undermining the "ethical foundation of health care itself." So warned U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop last week in Washington before President Reagan's commission on the HIV epidemic. Citing reports of doctors and other health-care workers "who refuse to treat persons with AIDS," Koop delivered a stinging broadside against the medical profession. Said he: "The good conduct of the majority does not release us from facing the unprofessional conduct of a fearful and irrational minority...
...procedure was routine, similar to one undergone each year by up to 4 million Americans -- victims of auto accidents, those recovering from operations, cancer patients and others. But this transfusion contained the seeds of tragedy: unknown to anyone at the time, the blood was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The next year the patient developed an AIDS-related form of pneumonia, and he died in 1984. His wife tested positive for the AIDS antibodies, and was later diagnosed as having a type of cancer associated with AIDS. She too has died...
...annually in health care. Unhappily, these numbers are not mere guesswork: the vast majority of those who will sicken and die over the next five years already have the AIDS virus in their bodies. An estimated 1 million to 1.5 million people in the U.S. have been infected by HIV (for human immunodeficiency virus), the currently preferred term for the AIDS-causing agent. The academy calculates that at least 25% to 50% of them will develop the actual disease. Very few AIDS victims live more than three years after their disease is first diagnosed...
Indian researchers have long been afraid that AIDS, which destroys the body's natural defenses against disease, would spread rapidly once it reached the subcontinent. Known as HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, the AIDS microbe is transmitted by sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and contaminated needles, though not, say researchers, by casual contact with infected persons. During pregnancy, infected women can pass the virus on to their unborn children...