Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen as a gay issue," one group member said. "I see a lot of hysteria." In California, a group calling itself PANIC (Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee) has placed a proposition on the November ballot giving health officials the right to quarantine all AIDS patients and carriers of the virus. Though unlikely to pass, it has stirred the most voter emotion...
...greatest fear of AIDS, of course, centers on questions about its transmission. On the medical front last week, researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris announced that traces of the AIDS virus have been found in the genes of more than 50 varieties of insects from Africa. The report's author, Jean-Claude Chermann, rushed to assure the public that insects almost certainly pose no threat to humans, but a trigger-happy French press jumped to its own conclusions. MOSQUITOES COULD TRANSMIT AIDS VIRUS, headlined France- Soir...
...fact, Chermann explained, "it takes quite a bit of the virus to engender AIDS" in humans, more than is found in insects. Experts reaffirmed that intimate sexual contact, shared use of intravenous needles and infection at birth are the major ways to get the disease. Said Dr. Jonathan Mann, of the World Health Organization: "With the number of mosquitoes there are in Zaire, the entire population would already have the disease if they transmitted the virus...
...virus can fuse itself to the cell, gain entry and thereby cause trouble," Wiley said. His aim is to modify viruses to prevent the initial fusion, he explained, demonstrating with a 5-ft. molecular model...
Designed to introduce the assembled company of educated men and women to current scholarship in most academic fields, symposia topics run the intellectual gamut from the Greek poet Homer to the latest discoveries about the AIDS virus...