Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Media reports have spread the mournful message of young people in search of employment or, at least, a useful purpose. But Harvard alums from the Class of '93 interviewed last week seem to be doing all right...
There was disappointing news about theso-called "triple therapy," a combination of drugsthat a Harvard medical student announced inFebruary might slow the spread of HIV, the viruswhich causes AIDS...
Media reports have spread the mournful message of young people in search of employment or, at least, a useful purpose. But Harvard alums from the Class of '93 interviewed last week seem to be doing all right...
...gets most of the best lines. "How many people have to die to make it cost-efficient for you people to do something about it?" he shouts at a meeting where the nation's blood banks resist testing blood for AIDS, despite early evidence that the disease is being spread by transfusions...
...characters are nearly all responsible public servants or saintly victims. Even Gaetan Dugas -- the Canadian flight attendant known as "Patient Zero," whom Shilts identified as a key early spreader of the disease -- is here simply a suave narcissist, not (as Shilts implies) an almost criminally reckless libertine who knowingly spread the disease...