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...years the Pentagon has quietly conducted "wound care" experiments on live animals at four laboratories around the country to help train doctors for combat duty. A fifth such center was to open next month at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. Called the Wound Laboratory, the $70,000, 50-ft.-long firing range would have received 75 pigs for its initial experiments and, thereafter, up to 80 dogs a year. The plan: to anesthetize or restrain the animals, shoot them in the hind legs, and then let 150 military doctors treat the wounds. Once treated...
...most severe side effect of AIDS has been the largely unwarranted hysteria that has accompanied the syndrome (see following story). In order to allay fears that AIDS is widely contagious, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler last week visited the Warren Magnuson Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., where she shook hands with AIDS victims and sat at their bedsides. Said Heckler: "What's just as bad as the disease is the fear of the disease. The fear has become irrational." Explains Dr. James Curran, head of the AIDS task force at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control...
...cause Lassa fever and Ebola virus, two maladies that produce severe internal bleeding and are native to Africa. There have been no fatalities in the lab. When a worker is exposed to a disease, he is flown to the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Md...
Christopher Faby Jessup, Md...
Secretary of the Navy John Lehman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.: "We have had a true sea change of historic proportions in our nation. In a few short years the self-doubt, the post-Viet Nam syndrome of negativism, of antimilitarism, of loss of faith, have been transformed. Traditional American values are no longer held up to ridicule. But more important, America has turned once again to its military to set standards of integrity and excellence and to restore American security and confidence in a very threatening world...