Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...danger from AIDS: the Gulag. A Soviet decree issued last week specifies prison sentences of up to eight years for spreading the disease and five years for exposing another person to the virus, even if the infection is not passed on. The law empowers authorities to conduct compulsory AIDS tests on those suspected of carrying the virus, and any foreigner who refuses to be tested may be expelled...
...experimental injection departs from traditional vaccines, which are made from weakened or killed viruses. Reason: the AIDS virus is so dangerous, scientists fear that once inside the body, even a killed version could revive itself and prove deadly. Thus the MicroGeneSys product, called VaxSyn, and most other AIDS vaccines under development depend on using only parts of the virus in the hope that these bits and pieces will spark enough immune protection...
...October doctors will administer VaxSyn to 60 homosexual men from the Washington area. To qualify, volunteers must be free from AIDS virus infection and agree to use "safe sex" practices. After counseling, they must also sign a three-page consent form explaining the risks of participation and pass a quiz to confirm that they understand the experiment...
...soreness at the site of the injection, and perhaps a fever. Although no one can get AIDS from the vaccine, recipients who respond to the inoculation may come up positive on the AIDS antibody-screening test. Other tests, however, will show that they are not really infected by the virus. Another potential drawback: the injection could impair the response to a future, more powerful vaccine. Still, NIAID has found many willing applicants, evidently motivated by a sense of responsibility to help end the epidemic...
...part of the growing AIDS load. For their part, insurance executives complain that one of their industry's fundamental principles, the right to evaluate risk, is under attack. The outcome of the struggle is also of vital interest to individual policyholders, who might see premiums rise as the deadly virus spreads through society...