Word: patrascu
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...that hardly existed in Rumania. But the dictator had raised the odds that it would become a problem by outlawing birth control and sex education -- two mainstays of AIDS-prevention efforts elsewhere in the world -- in an attempt to boost his country's population. In January 1989, Dr. Ionel Patrascu, of Bucharest's Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology, decided to test a handful of patients for the virus as part of a research project. Amazingly, the first child screened, a twelve-year-old girl, was infected. Of 14 more children examined at the same pediatric clinic, six harbored...
After Ceausescu's fall, Patrascu resumed testing with the help of Medecins du Monde. As he uncovered more and more cases, the doctor was puzzled by the unusual concentration of infections in children from one to three years old. Ordinarily, babies are exposed to the AIDS virus only through their mothers, but the mothers of these children were found to be free of infection...
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