Word: viruses
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...England Journal of Medicine reported that the drug AZT prevents patients with only a few symptoms of AIDS from fully developing the disorder. Says Co-Author Margaret Fischl of the University of Miami: "The next step will be to try the drug on people who test positive for the virus but have no symptoms...
Some of the charges springing up in courts have a dubious basis in science. There is no evidence that the AIDS virus has ever been spread through saliva. In a case that involves biting or spitting, that can certainly undercut a prosecutor's attempts to prove a charge of attempted murder. A more realistic threat, however, is represented by infected prostitutes or by someone who knowingly sells or donates his or her AIDS-tainted blood. In such cases, what should...
...says the "egregiousness" of Markowski's actions led to the attempted murder charge. California health code provisions that might apply to AIDS carry only misdemeanor penalties. In Fresno, authorities had used that code two weeks earlier to bring misdemeanor charges against an accused prostitute suspected of carrying the AIDS virus. She could get up to 90 days in prison for the alleged violation. Local Prosecutor James Oppliger cannot recall, however, any previous case in which the communicable-disease law has been invoked. Says he: "We're not sure how viable the charge will...
...sympathize. A survey project at George Washington University in Washington found that 25 of some 500 AIDS-related bills introduced in state legislatures this year proposed criminal sanctions for conscious transmission of the disease. Florida and Idaho have made it a crime knowingly to expose another person to the virus. The possible penalties include prison terms of 60 days in Florida, six months in Idaho. A similar criminalization measure awaits Governor Edwin Edwards' signature in Louisiana: penalties could range as high as a $5,000 fine and ten years in prison. A new Nevada law requires that anyone arrested...
...reckless transmission of the AIDS virus comparable to attempted murder? The courts try to cope with a new deadly weapon...