Word: viruses
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...latest catchphrase in the war against AIDS is something called prevalence testing. Policymakers, researchers and health officials all want to know just how far the AIDS virus, called HIV-1, has spread in the U.S., but they disagree vehemently on how to go about it. After months of resisting President Reagan's calls for mandatory testing, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop last week told reporters at an AIDS conference in London that he hopes this spring to screen every student at a still unchosen urban U.S. university with a population of 25,000. Said Koop: "That would give...
...first novel to deal with the impact of AIDS and will surely not be the last, but it will probably rank with the best. It begins with Brandstetter's discovery of a corpse on his doorstep, the latest in a string of victims who were all dying of the virus already. His effort to unravel what turns out to be two related mysteries takes him to the homes of abandoned victims, grieving families and lovers, co- workers deep into denial. Their quicksand feelings of fear mingled with shame and rage are powerfully drawn and linger in the mind. Apart from...
...Persons who ate in the Currier House Grill Thursday, January 7, 1988 and only on that single date, are at potential risk of exposure to infectious hepatitis (Hepatis A). The latter is a virus-induced inflammation of the liver which can be prevented or modified by the administration of immune globulin. Individuals who partook of Currier Grill food on January 7 are urged to come into the immunization on the fourth floor of Holyoke Center between the hours...
...such mothers are poor, black or Hispanic women from neighborhoods where intravenous drug abuse is rampant, confirming a demographic pattern established by a similar study in Massachusetts published last year. Not all of these newborns, however, are doomed. Doctors estimate that more than half received only antibodies -- not the virus itself -- from their mothers during gestation. These lucky ones will not develop AIDS. The others, however, will eventually sicken, most before...
...infection, not just terminal AIDS. A textbook case of AIDS, involving Kaposi's sarcoma or Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, represents only the tip of the iceberg. Epidemiologists estimate that for every person with AIDS, there may be as many as ten more suffering from other illnesses caused by the virus. "The real disease starts when you become infected with HIV," says William Haseltine, chief of biochemical pharmacology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. "AIDS is just the most severe manifestation of that disease, but there are many more, and they can kill...