Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testing. Reagan drew boos and hisses during a May 31 speech at a private AIDS fund-raising dinner when he urged "routine" testing of inmates in federal prisons and patients in Veterans Administration hospitals. He also asked that all foreigners seeking residence visas be screened for exposure to the virus and strongly encouraged states to test marriage-license applicants...
...reaction, asked, "Who was that? Some gay group out there?" Before his speech, an estimated 350 protesters, some of them suffering from AIDS, had staged a noisy demonstration in front of the White House. District of Columbia police, wearing yellow rubber gloves to protect against possible AIDS-virus infection, arrested 64 of the protesters...
...other leaders of major industrial democracies* meet at the economic summit in Venice this week. That the battle against AIDS will require international cooperation was a point repeatedly made by top AIDS researchers at the Washington conference. Speaker after speaker emphasized the lengthening reach of the AIDS virus around the globe -- and the potential magnitude of the problem for policymakers. Said U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Lowell T. Harmison: "We are at war with a global disease...
...dimensions of the disease by testing 45,000 randomly selected volunteers. There are now more than 36,000 cases of AIDS in the U.S., and as many as 1.5 million people, or about one in every 30 men between the ages of 20 and 50, may already carry the virus. "The President's statement was something I could agree with," said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who opposes mandatory testing because it might scare away those in high-risk groups who need both screening and counseling. Under the President's plan, Koop stressed, "individuals have a right...
...intravenous drug abusers, who collectively make up 91% of U.S. AIDS cases. Indeed, researchers at the AIDS conference presented evidence of a continuing rise in the number of new infections among IV drug users in the U.S., most of them black or Hispanic, who are spreading the virus to the heterosexual community...