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Harvard has "a very low incidence" of all venereal diseases, said UHS Director Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker. Harvard's rate of venereal disease is low because the University is a closed community, Wacker said. "If there's not much infiltration from the outside it will stay low," he said...
...Harvard students, long renowned for their preference of study to sleep, at risk? Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, said they are not especially endangered as a group, and that long-term coffee use is far more dangerous than sporadic caffeine concentrations. Wacker said that the study was "dealing with fairly small numbers" and hence unworthy of alarm. He added that if coffee drinking does cause heart trouble, it is certainly not as dangerous to consumers as tobacco addiction...
...Wacker said he did not foresee any hysteria about the disesase at Harvard. "We didn't have a bad reaction to a death at Harvard [of and AIDS patient]," he said...
...Wacker said three Harvard affiliates have been reported to have contracted the disease, one of whom died...
Harvard's Student Health Advisory Committee has planned an AIDS Seminar for November 20, Wacker said. He added that on that date, UHS will begin distributing new literature on the disease, which attacks the immune system rendering its victim extremely vulnerable to pneumonia and certain rare forms of cancer...