Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although primarily a fund raiser, the well-publicized dinner was also the film capital's way of confronting a growing panic. Though health authorities issue new assurances almost daily that AIDS cannot be spread through casual contact with its victims, Hollywood performers and directors have joined dentists, parents of schoolchildren and many other Americans in developing their own set of phobias about the disease. The film community, for example, is widely assumed to include at least its share of homosexual men. Male homosexuals constitute the largest single group of AIDS victims. For Hollywood's female stars, the most pressing career...
...Miami, a highly successful caterer and floral designer named David Harrison was ruined when word spread that he had AIDS. Old clients, even hospitals, suddenly shunned...
...Orleans, the local AIDS task force gets calls from citizens asking if the disease can be spread by mosquitoes. "If that were true, the whole city of New Orleans would have AIDS," sighs the agency's chairman, Dr. Louise McFarland...
...rest are drug abusers. Nonetheless, when asked by a CBS-New York Times poll to name "the most serious medical problems facing the country," more people cited AIDS than heart disease, the nation's leading killer (75,961 deaths last year). Experts agree that AIDS can be spread only through intimate sexual conduct, the use of a contaminated hypodermic needle, transfusions of blood containing the virus, or, in the case of a newborn, from an infected mother (see following story). But many people remain ignorant or simply doubt the evidence. The CBS-Times poll found that 47% think that AIDS...
Concern is growing over the possible spread of AIDS in prisons. In Denver, nervous officials quarantined a 16-year-old, convicted of carrying a concealed weapon, because he had tested positive for the AIDS virus. He ate off disposable plates, which, along with his bed linen, were incinerated after being handled with gloves and double-bagged. Later tests showed he did not have the disease. In prisons where sodomy and drug use are commonplace, some inmates are fatalistic. Says Nadim Khoury, chief of health services for the California department of corrections: "They say, 'What more can happen...