Word: infectivity
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...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...
...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...
...plans to begin a new set of trials with the virus in the next month or so. One of his challenges is to render the adenovirus harmless and keep it from spreading out of control. "We want to cure cystic fibrosis," he says. "We don't want to infect the whole town...
After World War I, there were fears that millions of displaced Europeans, newly influenced by Bolshevism, would infect America with alien ideology. As a result, a series of racism-tinted national-origins laws passed during the 1920s established an annual immigration quota of 150,000 that favored established groups like the Germans and Irish. Some nationalities, notably the Japanese, were excluded entirely. The national-origins system was preserved in the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, though that notorious law did establish tiny quotas -- 100 or so a year -- for such previously barred groups as Indians and Filipinos...
...addition, creating valuable animal models for HIV infection is difficult, says Hirsch, because the virus does not infect any organism but humans...