Word: hiv
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...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...
...itself become a political football as the French insisted on LAV (lymphadenopathy-associated virus), while Gallo's group used HTLV-3 (human T-cell lymphotropic virus, type 3). In a statement published in the journals Nature and Science, a taxonomy group subcommittee proposed a third name, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and urged scientists to adopt it. Because of the pending legal actions, Gallo refused to endorse the change, although Montagnier signed the statement. Nonetheless, Subcommittee Chairman Harold Varmus, a leading California virologist, expressed hope that the decision would help defuse "the tense legalistic atmosphere" that has tarnished AIDS research...