Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerome E. Groopman of the Harvard-affiliated Deaconess Hospital said yesterday that he has discovered the virus known to cause AIDS in the saliva of high-risk patients...
Groopman also discovered that healthy people might be carriers of the AIDS virus without exhibiting the deadly symptoms...
Most scientists do agree that much of the weakened impact of antibiotics can be blamed on doctors who overprescribe antibiotics, ordering them, for example, for virus-caused colds, and on people who use them indiscriminately. Veterinarian Jerry Brunton of the Animal Health Institute, a lobbying group, finds major flaws in the study: "No meat samples were available to indicate that disease-causing organisms were ever present, nor were such organisms isolated in the meat processing and preparation locations or from the farm where the alleged source animals were raised...
Haseltine and his associates figured out how a leukemia virus--known as HTLV-1--takes control and infects blood cells. They believe that a similar process is at work when HTLV-3 viruses--which is believed to be the cause of AIDS--attack cells. And they think that some genetic material in this family of viruses is the culprit...
Haseltine and his associates figured out how a leukemia virus--known as HTLV-I--takes control and infects blood cells. They believe that a similar process is at work when HTLV-3 viruses--which is believed to be the cause of AIDS--attack cells. And they think that some genetic material in this family of viruses is the culprit...