Word: viruses
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...Army knows the deadly capability of viruses for biological warfare. That may be why military prosecutors are now among the first lawmen in the country to see the AIDS virus as a weapon and its willful transmission as a crime. At Fort Huachuca, Ariz., last week, Private First Class Adrian G. Morris Jr., a clerk-typist at the garrison headquarters, faced a court-martial on charges that include aggravated assault. Reason: Morris allegedly had sex with two soldiers, one male, one female, although he knew an Army screening had shown him to be an AIDS virus carrier...
...weeks ago, Los Angeles prosecutors filed attempted murder charges against Joseph Markowski, 29, accused of selling his blood and engaging in prostitution even though he allegedly knew he was suffering from AIDS. In June, James Vernell Moore, a federal-prison inmate who tested positive for exposure to the AIDS virus and who bit two guards, was convicted by a Minneapolis federal jury of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon: his mouth and teeth. In Columbia, S.C., assault and battery with intent to kill has been added to a rape charge in the upcoming trial of Terry Lee Phillips...
...surprisingly, scientists last week quickly slapped down the suggestion that the pesky insects may be infecting humans with the AIDS virus. For one thing, the virus does not reproduce inside mosquitoes, as it does in human blood. Nor is it found in insect saliva, which generally transports insect- borne infections. Even under perfect laboratory conditions, researchers have been unable to produce an AIDS infection by a mosquito or another biting insect...
Animal research may help answer some basic physiological questions about fetal brain implants. Will the brains of Parkinson's victims, most of whom are middle-aged or elderly, integrate with fetal tissue? Could a virus that found its way into the brain, which is normally unaffected by the immune system, accidentally set off an abnormal immune response that would destroy the graft? And even without viral intervention, would the foreign fetal cells be rejected? Moreover, surgeons will have to know precisely how much tissue from what stage of development should be used in each transplant. Taking the tissue too early...
...brave new world of brain implants to treat neurological disorders may be on the horizon. -- Can mosquitoes carry the AIDS virus...