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...that he had the disease. They are a tribute to a man who will not quit. When Marberger learned in 1985 that he had Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare form of skin cancer that is sometimes associated with AIDS, his reaction was to fight the assault by the AIDS virus no matter what the cost in money or suffering. The co-owner of a successful Manhattan art gallery, he sold off paintings, two homes and an old mill, worth more than a million dollars -- a "war chest" for his battle against the disease...
Many survivors acknowledge their indebtedness to such modern AIDS drugs as AZT, which is believed to hinder the replication of the virus and is the only federally approved drug to treat the disease. But many also cling to the belief that AIDS can be controlled largely through mental attitude. That is the case with Ronald Webeck, 40, of St. Petersburg, who found "positive thinking" last year, nearly two years after he was discovered to have AIDS. He marvels that he is still alive while more than 50 of his acquaintances have succumbed to the disease. Although he tires too easily...
Positive thinking can surely be a powerful tonic, believes Dr. Jack Gorman, who is principal investigator for a National Institute of Mental Health study on the relationship between the course of the AIDS virus and the psyche. Preliminary evidence, he says, suggests that "depression and stress have bad effects on the immune system, while an optimistic and hopeful attitude has good effects." Other doctors continue to be skeptical about such thinking. "We all like to think that we have some power over what happens," says Dr. Richard Price, head of neurology at New York City's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer...
...regard this as World War III," says Marberger. "I'm fighting it with every resource I have." Indeed, each of these men, in his own way, has found reserves of courage and strength in the battle against the virus. For New York Musician Callen, the battle is providing a new sense of purpose. He admits that he is "happier than I have ever been. I hate being sick, but I don't have time to be obsessed about death." It is an attitude that provides a glimmer of hope amid the devastation being wrought by AIDS...
...great is the risk of the AIDS virus being transmitted between male and female sex partners? Americans have been told both not to worry and, in a sensationalized book by Sexologists Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, that AIDS is "running rampant" among heterosexuals. Now Dr. Norman Hearst and Dr. Stephen Hulley of the University of California at San Francisco have calculated the odds of heterosexual transmission. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association they reported that the chance of getting AIDS ranges from 1 in 500 for a single act of intercourse with an infected partner...