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Attitudes are changing as well, officials say. "What we are seeing is that people are less apt to hide behind the safety factor of calling it a gay disease," says Dartmouth's Turco. "A lot of people won't change their habits, but the information is there, and we are getting more of an educated society...
...discussing the drawbacks of having the test done at UHS. Meanwhile, UHS officials are discouraging students from being tested for AIDS at UHS if they do not belong to a high-risk group. At Dartmouth, health officials recently decided to allow students to be tested anonymously, says John H. Turco '70, director of the school's health services...
Past measles epidemics at Boston University and other schools have traditionally been blamed on faulty file keeping and lazy supervision of records. But Turco says that Dartmouth records give evidence to the fact that even those who have been previously innoculated still came down with the disease...
According to Turco, the solution to the problem of the spreading measles epidemic is more frequent innoculations. Other college communities have debated adopting this solution...
...keeping Dr. Turco's theory of waning immunity levels under consideration," Postel says. He adds, "Harvard is waiting to get official word on whether or not this is a real thing before we do anything about...