Word: viruses
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...Services, said AIDS would make black death -- the bubonic plague that wiped out as much as a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages -- "pale by comparison." In a frightening, controversial book, sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson contended that toilet seats could transmit the AIDS virus and that the deadly disease would run rampant among heterosexuals...
...mere two or three years of work, retire on a pension that will finance decades of carefree living. Such a bargain is in fact available -- but only to chimpanzees. Some 80 chimps are involved in a research project in San Antonio in which they are injected with the AIDS virus; they develop some clinical symptoms but not the full disease and have every prospect of living out their normal life-span of 40 to 60 years. They are, however, useless for further research, and it seems imprudent to release the AIDS-infected primates, who were born in captivity, into...
Animal rights protests also endanger a field that is more important to human life than coats--animal experimentation. ALF, for example, recently claimed responsibility for sending Stanford University bomb threats because researchers there had successfully infected mice with the AIDS virus, and were testing possible treatments on them...
...least part of the delay may be cut short. Cambridge BioScience of Worcester, Mass., announced last week that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market a blood test that will indicate in five minutes whether a person is infected with the AIDS virus, vs. several hours for the standard laboratory measure. The BioScience product, which will not be sold to consumers, is expected to help time-pressed doctors and nurses in emergency rooms or on transplant teams...
...AIDS, the leading figure of the church in France, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, generally considered a pro-papal conservative, dutifully defended the church's moral tenets. But then Lustiger, who was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope John Paul II in 1981, added that those "who carry the virus and cannot live in chastity ((should)) use the proposed methods." That clearly meant condoms, though Lustiger did not utter the word. Last week in L'Express, he repeated his view. The Vatican made no immediate response, but one Roman official deemed the Cardinal's lesser-of-two-evils approach "reprehensible...