Word: infectives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...procedure involves genetically engineering human cells to produce antibodies that interfere with the production of a protein necessary for HIV, the virus which most commonly causes AIDS, to infect human cells...
...months. Raised as Catholics, "their AIDS awareness is nil," says social worker Wiltrud Schenk. "They get embarrassed if you mention the word condom." In Bombay farmers migrate to town off-season for construction jobs. They visit the brothels -- where a third of the prostitutes are HIV-positive -- and later infect their wives. The virus is sweeping the subcontinent: from half a dozen HIV-positive cases in 1986 to a million today -- and an estimated 10 million in the next decade, when the number of people suffering from the full-blown disease is expected to rise to 1 million. Even...
...study in Kenya has shown that HIV-positive women who are pregnant or taking oral contraceptives are likelier than average to infect their sexual partners, maybe because of changes in the cervix...
Chow found that when he combined AZT and ddl, two common anti-AIDS drugs approved by the FDA, with Pyrodine, which inhibits DNA duplication by HIV-1, the virus could no longer replicate to infect other cells...
...book and the movie, which stars Sam Neill and Laura Dern, are essentially theme-park rides -- say, EPCOT Center's Universe of Energy, the one with the Audio-Animatronic dinosaurs -- which Crichton has given a cunning tweak. The novel is also a dark musing on the hubris that can infect science and capitalism in the heady, dicey enterprise of cloning DNA. The biotechnologist thinks he is God; the businessman dreams he is Croesus...