Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Baltimore, an affiliate of the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-chairman of the Institute ofMedicine commission on AIDS, discussed both theshort and long term effects of the AIDS virus onsociety...
...long run, Baltimore said, the majorchallenge to the medical community is to find avaccine for the virus and to find drugs to treatthe illness...
Sweden's best medal hopes, however, are probably Svan and Torgny Mogren, 24, his childhood buddy. Mogren had been in Svan's shadow, but came on to take the 1987 World Cup. Svan has long since recovered from a lingering virus that made last year a disappointment. This season the two friends have seesawed back and forth on top of the World Cup standings. Last month Mogren slipped once again into first place, but Svan maintains with Viking assurance:, "I have never run faster than...
...disagree that drug abuse is a deadly evil. But the growing AIDS juggernaut, New York health officials argue, is deadlier. As many as 60% of the city's 200,000 addicts now carry the AIDS virus; only 35,000 are in drug- treatment programs. One result: growing numbers of women of childbearing age in the city are infected -- most of them through intravenous drug use or sexual contact with users. Says City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph: "The IV drug user is the gateway to the heterosexual population." That threat to public health persuaded Axelrod to permit an exception...
Meanwhile, physicians at the New Jersey University of Medicine and Dentistry last week reported the first case in the U.S. of infection by a second deadly AIDS virus, HIV-2. The strain was first discovered in West Africa in 1985; since then some 100 cases have turned up in Western Europe. The reason for concern: blood tests for HIV-1 do not always detect HIV-2, making it possible for the infection to slip through AIDS-screening procedures in blood banks...