Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-affiliated hospitals can care for people who contract AIDS or test positive for the virus, say directors. An insurance program introduced this year at UHS to help cover pharmaceutical costs will help defray costs for AZT, an expensive drug used to treat AIDS, they...
...estimates that by 1991, as many as 10 million people in this country will be infected with the AIDS-causing Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) (also known until recently as HTLV-III and LAV). Researchers estimate a large proportion of them will develop the disease...
...complexity of the virus makes progress toward a cure extremely difficult, though doctors can often treat related illnesses. Some drugs, notably AZT, have been shown to slow the progress of AIDS or its related symptoms...
...AIDS virus is carried only by bodily fluids; it spreads chiefly through sexual contact or contact with contaminated blood, as with transfusions or shared intravenous drug needles. HIV spreads only from semen to blood, vaginal fluid to blood or blood to blood. The virus does not survive long outside these fluids and cannot be transported via food, air or surfaces such as toilet seats...
Latex condoms decrease the risk of exposure to HIV if used properly; spermicidal foams can also kill the virus. Water-based lubricants make condoms less likely to break...