Word: viruses
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...Hampshire, England, 46 children were kept home from the Scantabout primary school when their parents found out that a fellow pupil was a nine-year-old hemophiliac who had been exposed to the AIDS virus. Officials insisted that the child stay in school, and eventually the parents relented...
...reactions frequently border on hysteria, adding ostracism and discrimination to the suffering of the world's AIDS victims. Headlines in Europe have proclaimed the disease's spread with dire warnings of a new plague. This has led Professor Carlo de Bac, secretary of the Italian League to Combat Virus Diseases, to complain that journalists are creating "unjustified alarm and panic worthy of the Dark Ages." But there has been at least one positive result of the increased, if distorted, public awareness of the malady: it has galvanized many foreign governments into action, and they are for the first time distributing...
...have issued official statistics, Brazil ranks second, with 483 known sufferers, followed by France (392), Haiti (377), Canada (323), West Germany (300) and Britain (225). Large areas of the globe, including India, China and the Soviet Union, have reported no indigenous cases at all. But the spread of the virus through international travel seems impossible to control, and it is unlikely to spare any country. As has already been seen in the U.S., once the disease takes hold, the number of victims multiplies rapidly. No one knows how many sufferers around the world have died from the disease, although there...
Last month, the club sponsored an appearance by Paul Cameron, a Nebraska-based psychologist who advocates a quarantine of homosexuals, intravenous drug addiets, and prostitutes whose blood carries the virus that causes AIDS...
Concern about AIDS has prompted calls for public health workers, dentists and even barbers to be tested for exposure to the virus believed to cause the disease. This month the armed services are starting such screening for all recruits. The National Education Association last week supported the right of schools to require tests of students and teachers when there was "reasonable" cause to believe they had been infected. Fearful of expensive claims by AIDS patients, insurance companies are working to change laws in California and Wisconsin that bar the use of AIDS blood tests to evaluate policy applicants. Some insurance...