Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadly disease itself is a secondary epidemic: fear. AIDS patients around the country have become society's new untouchables. Workers have been fired; babies abandoned; children, like Ryan White of Kokomo, Ind., banned from school. The fears have persisted despite assurances from doctors that AIDS has been known to spread almost exclusively through sexual contact and exposure to infected blood. A poll taken last summer showed that nearly half of Americans thought they could get the disease by drinking from a glass used by a patient; 32% thought kissing was risky...
...infected, female drug user; the child had probably contracted the virus before her birth. The absence of the virus in the other 100 was particularly impressive because most of them belonged to low-income families living in the kind of crowded conditions that are thought to facilitate the spread of infectious diseases. If the disease cannot be transmitted in such family settings, says Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief AIDS epidemiologist at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, "it is far less likely to be transmitted in schools, offices, restaurants and churches...
Thus far, CDC officials know of no case in which the AIDS virus has spread through casual contact. Last week, however, the CDC did report the first known instance of child-to-parent transmission. The case, Jaffe notes, was highly unusual in that the child, who was infected by a blood transfusion, suffered from a number of congenital ailments. His mother, a paramedic, had served as his nurse both at home and in the hospital, coming into frequent contact with the child's blood and wastes. Says Jaffe: "This kind of care is not what goes on in most households...
...money, should earnest Christians simply shun electronic religion altogether? To Hollywood's Ogilvie, that is not an option: "Otherwise we roll over and play dead." Jim Bakker sees video technology as the means to fulfill Jesus' 2,000- year-old injunction to reach out to the world and spread the Gospel. If Jesus were on earth today, Bakker asserts, "he'd have to be on TV. That would be the only way he could reach the people he loves...
...Chicago influence continues to spread. Steppenwolf is now represented on Broadway by an uneven but crowd-pleasing, hyperkinetic production of Pinter's The Caretaker, directed by John Malkovich, who was a 1985 Oscar nominee for his supporting role in Places in the Heart. Steppenwolf Artistic Director Gary Sinise will leave the cast March 1 to restage Lyle Kessler's Orphans, another past Steppenwolf venture, in London with a cast featuring Albert Finney. Meanwhile, Sinise, Malkovich and Peterson have all formed film- production companies. Also active in Hollywood is the first voice from the new Chicago theater to emerge into national...