Word: infects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study of monkeys infected with a form of AIDS, British researchers have made a small, but potentially very signficant, step toward discovering an AIDS vaccine. TIME Science writer Christine Gorman reports that while the study is important, "a big worry with the type of virus used in the research is you might actually infect patients with AIDS in the course of trying to immunize them...
...South America. But the most insidious of all, of course, is the AIDS virus, HIV. It probably originated in Africa as well, but unlike Ebola, it was ideally suited to spread around the globe. It kills so slowly and leaves victims without symptoms for so long that they can infect many others before dying...
...fact, the Ebola virus is ill-suited to sustaining an epidemic: it kills victims so quickly that they don't have much chance to infect others. Says Henderson: "People who are ill with Ebola are not walking around. They are on their backs." Moreover, the virus is not all that easy to pass along. Unlike the most highly contagious illnesses-tuberculosis or influenza, for example, Ebola can't be transmitted with a sneeze or cough. It's more like AIDS; direct contact with a victim's blood or other body fluids appears to be the only way to catch...
...Republicans, tax cuts are becoming a kind of deadly virus, threatening to cripple any G.O.P. measure that they infect. Welfare reform--the passion of angry white males--should have been a slam-dunk issue for Republicans. But last week they somehow allowed tax cuts--the passion of their campaign contributors--to get in the way. The Personal Responsibility bill of 1995, approved by the House last week, would save at least $66 billion by the year 2001 by limiting eligibility for welfare to five years in a lifetime and requiring recipients to go back to work after two years...
...moved on to music videos, wants to make. It is put simply by a doctor who is a minor character in his film: "War is a virus," meaning that, in an era of ethnic and religious conflict, the disease can be carried everywhere by impassioned terrorists and can infect anyone-in this case the young priest, the isolated Anne (who works as a photo editor, coolly studying images of violence) or even the seemingly well-inoculated Aleksander, who has seen and recorded most of the horrors of our time yet remains physically unscathed...