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From the drug culture, AIDS is starting to seep into the heterosexual population. More and more women are getting AIDS, mostly because they either inject drugs themselves or have sex with infected men. But the problem is not limited to the households of heroin addicts. AIDS is increasingly common among abusers of drugs that are not injected, such as crack cocaine and alcohol. These people tend to be sexually uninhibited and promiscuous, which increases their risk of picking up the AIDS virus. Last year about 5% of the new AIDS cases resulted from heterosexual contact, compared with...
...addition, Salk has asked the state of California for permission to inject his immunogen into ten volunteers who are free of AIDS. He theorizes that the volunteers' immune system will develop antibodies that may provide resistance- building injections for AIDS patients, and that this could eventually lead to an AIDS-prevention vaccine. Confident of the low risks, Salk himself plans to participate, just as he did when developing his polio vaccine...
...domestic heat over her dependence on the U.S. She may have used Cheney's visit to show some distance. While the U.S. bases are often picketed by leftists, polls show that a majority of Filipinos want them to stay. They provide 68,000 Filipino jobs and inject $507 million annually into the economy...
That number could soon soar even higher. In the past, street heroin was 6% to 10% pure and an addict had to take it intravenously to get high. Many cocaine users are unwilling to break through the "needle barrier" and inject themselves, in part out of fear of being infected with AIDS from a shared needle. But for the past several years, less diluted heroin from Southeast Asia that can be smoked has been widely available on the streets of New York, Boston and other cities. At $10 a 0.05-gram bag, the so-called China White is cheap enough...
...worst thing about leeches is not their bites--which do not hurt at all--but the anticoagulant they inject in your blood. Leech bites can bleed for hours after the buggers have been removed...