Word: virus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before the video camera rolls at a shoot, adult performers present each other with identification and valid--less than 90-day-old--HIV tests to prove that neither performer carries the virus. The exchange is routine and ritualistic, like a coin toss before a football game. I was watching and noticed that Marylin Star's driver's license read Kathryn Akahoshi, prompting me to ask why this blond had a Japanese name. She had become a stripper in Calgary while still a teenager, hitting Los Angeles in the mid-'90s to enter the adult-video business and then diving into...
...making principles stronger, forging them by fire? Thoughtful people who argue for Hitler as the Person of the Century do not want to honor him; they want to autopsy him, understand what made him strong and what finally killed him, and search, perhaps, for a vaccine for the virus that reappears still in ethnic enclaves, on websites, in the wilderness camps of skinhead anarchists and in the halls of Columbine High School, where two boys celebrated Hitler's birthday with a memorial massacre of children...
Good question. By any rational standard, AIDS is the most profound threat to Africa's survival since slavery. Left unchecked, it will decimate the continent. According to the United Nations, 23.3 million Africans are infected by the AIDS virus, more than twice as many as in the rest of the world combined. Nearly 14 million Africans have died from the disease. The number of African children left orphaned by AIDS will soar to 13 million by 2001, a catastrophic burden in poor nations that for the most part lack even a semblance of Western-style social-welfare agencies. Millions will...
...protease inhibitors--the medication that first lifted the death sentence for thousands of aids patients--with a new drug, Sustiva, seems to reduce HIV to undetectable levels in 50% more patients. Sustiva benefits kids too. When added to cocktails that contain protease inhibitors, it doubles the chances that the virus will be undetectable. Another big advantage: unlike protease inhibitors, Sustiva need be taken only once...
...list is the addition of screenings for hepatitis A and hepatitis C. The hepatitis-A vaccine is being recommended for groups at high risk for the disease, including international travelers, drug users and workers in the food-service, health-care or day-care industry. The test for hepatitis-C virus has been added for all women 13 and older and for women at particularly high risk (women who take intravenous drugs and those who received an organ transplant or a blood transfusion before...