Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mature enough and wise enough to accept that the deepest meaning of solidarity requires that we consider ourselves as if we all were infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), that we are all living with AIDS...
Koop warned, "It is estimated that in 1991, 54,000 will die from AIDS. At this moment, many of them are not infected with the virus. With proper information and education, as many as 12,000 to 14,000 could be saved in 1991 from death from AIDS...
...council's tight control of the agenda, some 50 dissidents accused it of hindering open discussions, then set up their own lunch-hour conference. On the sidelines, some medical professionals defended the use of condoms; others accused the church of homophobia. John White, a priest who contracted the virus while in Kenya and now runs an AIDS treatment center in London, was ejected from one conference session for wearing a sandwich board that read THE CHURCH HAS AIDS. Declared one participant from the U.S.: "This is the worst conference I've ever attended...
Zuromskis said studies show 20 percent of the people who should have been innoculated against measles between 1957 and 1980 do not have antibodies to the virus. Also, Zuromskis said, the vaccine that was used between 1957 and 1967 was not fully effective...
Samenfeld said that computer users could protect against the virus by keeping backups of programs, making their programs write protected and checking all their files using a virus-finding program, like one available for free...