Word: viruses
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...results of the study are correct, about 240 men who are already exposed to the virus will develop AIDS in Boston this year. The city has recorded 147 cases of AIDS since 1981. Ninety of these lived in Boston itself when diagnosed...
...study, which measured the percentage of subjects who showed evidence of antibodies to the AIDS virus in their blood, is the first to appraise the seriousness of AIDS Boston...
Similar studies show that one-third of New York homosexuals tested had antibodies for the AIDS virus, with the figure ranging between 40 and 75 percent in San Francisco...
...only university battling the rubeola virus. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, students have been stricken at Oberlin College in Ohio, Ohio State and the University of Michigan. Worst hit of all was Principia College of Elsah, Ill., a tiny Christian Science-affiliated school where at least 96 students have been infected and two have died, apparently from complications. (Rubeola, which tends to be more serious in adults than in children, can lead to pneumonia and encephalitis...
...first, doctors suspected that the polio virus had somehow remained latent in PPMA victims, only to be reactivated. But unlike polio, PPMA is never fatal, and it progresses far more slowly than the original disease. That would seem to rule out the polio virus as the culprit. A more likely cause may be the toll taken on healthy nerve cells by years of overcompensating for those destroyed by the disease. Many polio survivors, says Perry, "are functioning at 50% of their muscle strength most of the time, whereas healthy people stay under 20%." For this reason, the nerve cells...