Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week a committee of 28 biologists, clinicians, public-health scientists and other experts assembled by the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences gave some grim answers. AIDS, according to the panel's 374-page report, "could become a catastrophe" unless the spread of the killer virus is checked. That will require "perhaps the most wide-ranging and intensive efforts ever made against an infectious disease," specifically research and education programs that would probably cost $2 billion a year, at the minimum...
...deaths -- 74,000 new cases and 54,000 deaths during 1991 alone, costing between $8 billion and $16 billion annually in health care. Unhappily, these numbers are not mere guesswork: the vast majority of those who will sicken and die over the next five years already have the AIDS virus in their bodies. An estimated 1 million to 1.5 million people in the U.S. have been infected by HIV (for human immunodeficiency virus), the currently preferred term for the AIDS-causing agent. The academy calculates that at least 25% to 50% of them will develop the actual disease. Very...
...revealing his condition to his co-workers, who had then begun to threaten him. In California, debate continued over Proposition 64, on the ballot for consideration by voters in November. If passed, the proposition would give health officials the right to quarantine all AIDS patients and carriers of the virus. Perhaps the best news for AIDS patients last week was that shipments of azidothymidine, the experimental drug produced by Burroughs Wellcome Co. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., were arriving at twelve medical centers around the nation. The centers are awaiting the imminent FDA approval of the drug...
...panacea for AIDS. Because the original trials were terminated after only seven months, doctors cannot predict how long doses of the drug will continue to thwart the virus. They also warn that AZT has damaged the marrow of some patients' bones and could have even worse long- range effects. Moreover, says Terry Beirn of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, "we're not talking about cure. At the moment, I don't think it's in the lexicon...
...million in federal funds, Government and industry scientists are also scrambling to develop therapies to help rebuild immune systems devastated by the AIDS attack. "The real goal," says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), should be "to simultaneously suppress the virus and build up the immune response in the patient." Other researchers are concentrating on preventing the disease, experimenting with vaccines designed to protect healthy people from infection by the virus...