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There was a dissenting voice, however. In poverty-stricken Belle Glade, Fla., Dr. Mark Whiteside hailed the French finding as confirmation that insects could transmit AIDS and may be that area's chief cause of infection. Belle Glade (pop. 19,000) has a higher percentage of AIDS victims than Manhattan. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control has studied mosquito- ridden Belle Glade and attributes the AIDS rate to sexual activity or drug use. But, claims Whiteside, director of the area's Tropical Disease Clinic, many victims "are older individuals who are way past their sexually active years." He acknowledges...
...needles, many workers have strong objections to working in close quarters with carriers of the disease. Says Dana Ferrell, a director of the South Florida Health Action Coalition: "There's still a tremendous amount of ignorance out there." The dilemma, says Kenneth Labowitz, a Washington lawyer who represents many stricken employees, is that "a person who has AIDS has the worst medical stigma of the decade. One anchor in the crisis is family, and the other is his job. The victim needs support from both...
...rains that finally came last year to relieve famine-stricken Africa from drought prepared the ground for another natural disaster: an invasion of locusts. For the first time in 60 years, infestations of four different locust species are occurring at the same time. Together with swarms of grasshoppers, the voracious and sky-blackening insects are devouring crops in west, central and southern Africa. Currently under severe attack are large portions of Chad and Sudan, parts of Mauritania on the Atlantic coast and virtually all of Botswana in the south...
Western governments and relief agencies are mobilizing to fight the locusts, which migrate in clouds of billions of insects. The Food and Agriculture Organization last week opened a Rome emergency center to funnel assistance to stricken regions. Some $17 million in aid has so far been pledged by the U.S. and European Community members...
...qualify their results, the reporters who cover medical discoveries tend to make a media mountain out of a scientific molehill. Frequently after the local papers follow up on a tentative big medical discovery about, say Alzheimer's disease, doctors are plagued with patients worrying about their parents being stricken by the now-chic disease. And this can be directly related to the article in The Times or The Globe which reported, but did not qualify...