Word: simplex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When MIT comes up, it is usually because of the so-called Simplex project, a proposed 27-acre project on university-owned land that would include apartments, a luxury hotel, office and light industrial space. City activists say it will destroy the nearby neighborhood by pushing up property values and increasing traffic problems...
Cameron and others at the conference also reported that men with genital ulcers -- caused by such infections as herpes simplex 2, syphilis or chancroid -- were three times as vulnerable to the AIDS virus as those who were lesion free. "An ulcer breaks the integrity of the skin and allows infected blood to come into contact with a sexual partner," says Cameron. Thus, he adds, controlling treatable diseases like herpes and educating uncircumcised men about their risk could make a slight dent in the so far incurable scourge...
...okay, the intention of the project I worked on was to ascertain the effect of a Vitamin A-deficient diet on rats infected with the herpes simplex-one virus...
With a stern and concerned deadpan look, Larry replies, "No, that would be the simplex...
Increasingly, outraged spouses and lovers -- most of them women -- are suing their partners for infecting them with the sometimes painful and debilitating condition. Genital herpes, most commonly caused by the herpes simplex Type 2 virus, is thought to have infected up to 20 million Americans, and has no cure. The surge of litigation is largely based on the claim that one partner did not inform the other about his or her infection. This, the suits often charge, constitutes negligence...