Word: viruses
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Neither drug promises to cure AIDS, but both appear to inhibit reproduction of the virus that causes the deadly disease, researchers said...
...host of opportunistic infections that attack many AIDS patients because their immune systems have already been weakened by the virus. Experts estimate that almost 50 percent of the nearly 12,000 living AIDS patients in the U.S. have had this rare form of pneumonia...
AIDS TESTING HAS come to Harvard. As part of a policy affecting the entire U.S. armed forces, Harvard students enrolled in the Reserve Officer Training Corps will be tested to determine whether they are carrying HTLV-III, the virus which causes AIDS. Anyone testing positive will be dismissed from ROTC. Students on ROTC scholarships will lose them. While carriers of the virus do not necessarily develop the disease, the military has embarked on a policy of excluding all carriers from military service. This policy is not only unecessary and unsupported by clinical evidence about AIDS, but also indicative...
...medical evidence available so far indicates, first, that the HTLV-III virus can only be transmitted by the exchange of body fluids between a carrier and another person--an event that seems no more likely to occur among military personnel than between them and the general population--and, second, that many people carry HTLV-III without developing AIDS. The Department of Defense has expressed concern that carriers may develop the disease if they receive immunizations that are standard for all military personnel. This concern is touching, though there is little clinical evidence to support it. Moreover, people dismissed from active...
Scientists at Burroughs Wellcome suspected that the long-unused AZT might be what was needed to stop the AIDS virus. They discovered that when the drug enters a human cell, it is converted by a human enzyme into a "false sugar" ) that resembles, but is not identical to, the sugar used by the AIDS virus' reverse transcriptase to help build a DNA strand. If the AIDS enzyme mistakenly adds a false sugar molecule to the DNA chain, DNA synthesis is halted. So, they reasoned, further reproduction of the virus would be stopped...