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...spread of the AIDS epidemic as a whole appears to be slowing; the CDC estimates that 75% of those who will get the disease during the next five years have already been infected. Those most at risk of infection are homosexual and bisexual men, intravenous drug users and their sexual partners. But with the gay community now well organized to fight AIDS, the rate of infection among homosexuals appears to be declining. The CDC's Jaffe does not want the public to decrease its vigilance, but he would like to mute the hysteria. AIDS, he says, "is a fairly discrete...
While heterosexual transmission is possible, it does not happen easily. In a CDC study of spouses of AIDS patients who were infected by contaminated blood transfusions, researchers found that wives became infected 16% of the time and husbands only 5%. Some 10% of the people studied had more than 200 sexual contacts with an infected partner and still did not pick up the virus...
...first health workers infected by means other than contaminated needles. One, who suffers from acne, was splattered in the face and mouth with blood when a stopper popped off a tube. Another, an emergency-room worker, applied pressure to a patient's bleeding arm with her chapped hands. A CDC epidemiologist said that such cases are extremely rare and should not be a cause for alarm...
...furor created by the CDC's testing advisory was compounded when the federal Department of Health and Human Services also chose last week to release its long-delayed AIDS-education plan. The report, made public only after congressional prodding, was delayed for nearly two months by a sharp split in the Administration. Health authorities believe that the best AIDS prevention consists of candid information and safe-sex techniques like condom use, while conservative officials hold that chastity and marital sanctity are the only moral methods for preventing its spread...
...reported a total of ten cases of suspected Thucydides syndrome -- flu complicated by TSS. Nine of the cases occurred during a major influenza outbreak in Minnesota in the winter of 1985-86. One occurred in Roanoke, Va., and an eleventh case, in Oregon, has since been reported to the CDC. Like the Athenian scourge, the two-part illness was lethal: six of the patients died. Langmuir says the apparent fulfillment of his prophecy had him "blown over like a feather...