Word: viruses
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...attack children. Since 1981, however, doctors have reported more than 750 such cases. Now the news is even grimmer. Health officials last week announced the results of a study that showed an astonishing one out of every 61 infants born in New York City harbors antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS. Says State Health Commissioner David Axelrod: "What is alarming is that this is a higher level of infection than we had considered to be likely within the overall community...
...issue with homosexuals, the church does not want to appear to be condoning homosexual acts. Proponents of the new AIDS policy argue that providing information about condoms may be justified and even in keeping with moral theology in order to prevent the greater evil of spreading the lethal AIDS virus. Critics argue that it will encourage many, particularly teenagers, to believe the bishops are advising "If you can't be good, be careful...
...Ziegler, director of the AIDS clinical research center of the University of California at San Francisco. "Everyone who gets sick will die." A highly regarded Berkeley study suggests that as many as 52% of the city's 70,000 to 100,000 gay men have been exposed to the virus; from 4,000 to 8,000 people will become ill during Agnos' four-year term. Randy Shilts, author of And the Band Played On, a chilling chronicle of the disease, says gays in San Francisco are facing an "unrelenting tragedy of increasing proportions...
Lichtman's comments on the unreliability of "natural" condoms are well taken but have no bearing on the program being considered at Harvard. The condoms in the dispensers will most likely be lubricated latex models, possibly coated with spermicidal jelly shown to give additional protection against the AIDS virus...
...Natural" condoms, made of lamb intestine, are another story altogether. Researchers believe they may contain microscopic holes through which the AIDS virus can be transmitted. The point is very well summed up by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop: "If you use a condom for protection against AIDS the way you use them for birth control then you are in danger...