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...glands, fever, loss of appetite and a rundown feeling. As the illness progresses, the immune system grows weaker, leaving the patient vulnerable to viruses, bacteria and other problems. Among the most pernicious of these is Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), which has a 60% fatality rate, and Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that has stricken nearly 40% of AIDS victims, killing at least one-fifth of them. In the 17 months that the CDC has been tracking the epidemic, a total of 827 cases of AIDS have been reported in 33 states; 312 have ended in death...
...showing up at the medical clinics of New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco with a bizarre array of ailments. Some had Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a deadly disease rarely seen except in drug-weakened cancer and transplant patients. Others bore the purplish skin lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer that is usually confined to elderly men of Mediterranean extraction and young males in Equatorial Africa. Still others had developed strange fungal infections or other rare cancers. All had one thing in common: an immune system so severely impaired that they were living playgrounds for infectious agents...
...York, 20% in California. More to the point, AIDS has been traced from sexual partner to partner. In one Los Angeles study, nine out of 13 patients had had sexual contact with one another. In San Francisco, six pairs of "roommates" have been stricken with Kaposi's sarcoma...
Kaposi's sarcoma is a rare cancer that appears as violet patches on the skin and infiltrates the digestive and lymph systems. In the past, its victims have been mainly children in equatorial Africa and elderly people of Jewish or Mediterranean extraction. But now the disease is taking an alarming toll on another distinct group, American homosexual males. In the past six months, the disease that usually afflicts fewer than two people out of 3 million Americans has stricken 95 individuals, more than 90% of them homosexual men, most of whom are in their 30s. The death rate...
...Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, a team of researchers is trying to piece together the clues from more than 180 cases of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis. Nearly all the victims come from big cities with large homosexual communities: New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. A number of them report a high level of sexual activity with numerous partners. Though this kind of activity increases the suspicion that the disease or some factor in it is sexually transmitted, researchers have been unable to trace the syndrome from sexual partner to partner as they often can with venereal...