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...many unknowns. Research is making it abundantly clear that people differ, often inexplicably, in their vulnerability to the virus and in their tendency to transmit it to others by various routes. An AIDS carrier's infectivity -- his or her ability to pass the virus on -- may vary over time. Only now are researchers beginning to understand these differences and their implications for preventing the spread of the disease...
...seem to matter how often they had intercourse. One wife became infected after only one exposure, and another after just eight. Yet eleven women remained uninfected after more than 200 sexual contacts. The researchers speculate that the originally infected spouses may have somehow differed in their ability to transmit the virus. Another possibility: their husbands and wives may have differed in susceptibility...
Despite this optimism, he said he worries about "misinformation" such as the recent Masters and Johnson report which suggested that contaminated people can transmit AIDS through casual social contact...
...contracting job in U.S. history, the proposed deal has attracted a Who's Who of bidders that includes AT&T, all seven local phone companies, MCI, GM/EDS, Boeing and Martin Marietta. The winning contractors will replace the old system with a showpiece network that will enable federal workers to transmit computer data, conduct video conferences at their desks, send facsimile images and even transfer funds. Says Fritz Ringling, a private telecommunications consultant: "Whoever builds this thing will win the bragging rights to the world's most advanced telephone system...
...threat to public health persuaded Axelrod to permit an exception to a state law forbidding distribution or possession of needles without a prescription. His decision legally paved the way for a pilot program for 400 addicts. The group will receive counseling in the ways that sex and contaminated needles transmit the virus. Half of them will also receive clean needles and syringes, stamped N.Y. HEALTH DEPT., that must be exchanged after use for new ones...