Word: infectives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is also the aim for the scores of other viruses that the Yale lab and a select few others in the U.S. receive constantly from around the world. Says Shope: "About 100 of the viruses we have can infect people, and of those, 10% to 20% can kill." But even if scientists find ways to deal with all of those, there will always be more. New viruses are continually leaping from animal populations, where they have circulated harmlessly for years, into humans, and the problem has only become worse as people have moved into formerly uninhabited areas...
...strategy to which he refers, originally drafted by the WHO, discourages discrimination against sufferers so that they will not infect unwilling partners, targets health services at high-risk groups and works on providing education about AIDS...
...supposed to want sex, as it's presented in television and movies and pin up posters, but at the same time we're told that it can kill us, infect us with disease. An advertisement with two people passionately kissing is next to public service warning about AIDS in a subway station. They're conflicting messages, to say the least...
...actually at the highest risk for all sexually transmitted diseases. In 1992, the number of women with AIDS climbed 9.8 percent, while the number of men climbed only 2.5 percent. Various studies have shown that it may be anywhere from seven to 18 times easier for a man to infect a woman than vice versa...
...Farrakhan: We have never got to the point where we would sit down to open up these kinds of discussions. Unfortunately, there are those who saw in me a poison that would infect that group. And so they used their influence to push that group away from me. Even if they liked me, they could not associate with me for fear of what it would do to them professionally and economically...