Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many people who get blood transfusions these days are understandably nervous. Transfusions have saved countless lives, but they have sometimes transmitted serious blood-borne diseases, including AIDS. While public health officials point out that careful testing has all but eradicated the AIDS virus from the blood supply, they have not been able to claim that transfusions are perfectly safe. Reason: about 5% of patients who receive transfusions are exposed to a virus that can cause a potentially deadly liver infection called non-A, non-B hepatitis...
...panel also questioned the ethics of doctors who turned away AIDS patients. Two of the panelists cited an informal survey in which only four of 198 doctor contacted agreed to treat virus carriers...
...large numbers of bisexual men in some Latin countries appears to be hastening the spread of the disease from homosexuals to heterosexuals. One of these is Brazil, where Ho's study found that 28 percent of bisexual men and 23 percent of homosexual men were infected with the AIDS virus...
...researchers also found five people who were infected with HIV-2, an apparently less virulent relative of the primary AIDS virus that until now has been confined largely to West Africa...
...second AIDS virus is spreading to this part of the world, slowly but surely," Ho said...