Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to treat AIDS has been stymied by the difficulty of attacking viruses in general and the virus that causes this lethal disease in particular. The new drug works by short-circuiting the chemical process that the virus uses to make copies of itself inside human white blood cells...
...therapeutic claim has been made," said Dr. Samuel Broder of the cancer institute. "I am cautiously optimistic that the virus can be defeated. And I am cautiously optimistic that this drug can be developed and that other drugs of more refined technology can be brought to bear...
Speaking at the invitation of the Harvard-Radcliffe Conservative Club, the head of a private research organization last night told an Emerson Hall audience that all homosexuals, prostitutes, and intravenous drug users whose blood carries the virus linked to AIDS should be quarantined...
...impassioned 40-minute speech, Cameron blamed homosexuals for spreading the deadly disease around the world and called for a system of blood testing to isolate carriers of the AIDS virus...
AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, has been traced to a sexually-transmitted virus. Recent studies have found that the disease can be transmitted among heterosexuals...