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...partner. But researchers at last week's 27th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, in Manhattan, presented further evidence that the odds are not equal for all players in today's sexual roulette. Drawing on a study of 357 men at a venereal-disease clinic in Nairobi, Microbiologist William Cameron reported that uncircumcised men are 9 1/2 times as likely as circumcised males to become infected after exposure. According to Cameron, "The mucosal membrane underneath the foreskin may trap the virus, making it more likely to enter the bloodstream...
...least 32 states and six continents, in part because doctors have become more adept at diagnosing it. Since 1980 there have been nearly 6,000 officially recorded cases in the U.S., but experts say the actual number is far higher. "If it weren't for AIDS," says Microbiologist Russell Johnson of the University of Minnesota, "it would be the No. 1 new disease facing us today...
...view it as merely the latest example of man playing man, exploiting nature as he always has. "A dairy cow was not put on this earth to produce milk for humans," Wagner says. "It was put here to make more cows. We just adapted them to our needs." Harvard Microbiologist Bernard Davis agrees. "Genetic engineering in animals is simply an extension of domestication," he says. "Of all the technologies that man has developed, domestication probably has the best record of enormous benefits to human beings and no hazards...
...through sex with multiple partners. Surveys of African AIDS patients in Rwanda and Belgium found they had had an average of 32 sex partners. Huge reservoirs of infection exist along trade routes connecting the hard-hit countries of the AIDS belt. "In the epicenter," says Belgian Microbiologist Peter Piot, "15% to 25% of the adult population is affected. That's really mind blowing...
...signs of trouble ahead. Most of the victims are young people between the ages of 19 and 40. African governments are therefore bracing for the loss of many of their best and brightest. "I believe that AIDS will have a major impact on the development of Africa," says Microbiologist Piot. "The ones who are dying are the young adults in whom governments have invested the most in terms of education...