Word: viruses
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...Chiron appears to have done it again. Capping more than five years of intensive detective work, the company announced last week that it had isolated and cloned proteins from the last major hepatitis virus to elude detection: a blood-borne infectious agent that is known as hepatitis non-A, non-B. The virus strikes about 5% of the 4 million Americans who undergo blood transfusions each year, and it causes a range of symptoms from fatigue to chronic liver disease...
Like Koop's straight-shooting AIDS report released in 1986, the HHS primer, which is geared to the reading level of seventh-graders, does not mince words. "No matter what you may have heard, the AIDS virus is hard to get and is easily avoided," the pamphlet says. "You won't get AIDS from clothes, a telephone or from a toilet seat." Instead, the virus is transmitted by "sharing drug needles and syringes; anal sex, with or without a condom; and vaginal or oral sex with someone who shoots drugs or engages in anal...
...they're going to inject, we have to make sure that they do it safely, with a clean needle," said Christopher M. Farnet, a founding member of the AIDS Action Committee, a 2000-member volunteer network to help patients with the virus...
...resolution, proposed by Councillor Saundra M. Graham, was designed to mitigate the AIDS epidemic. Sharing infected needles during IV drug use is the second highest mode of transmission for the incurable disease, and 26 percent of all IV drug users are infected with the AIDS virus...
Providing drug users with clean needles, AIDS education, and access to drug rehabilitation are all important ways to mitigate the epidemic, said Farnet, who studies the AIDS virus at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...