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...York University Medical Center in Manhattan, 300 doctors gathered to exchange notes on the phenomenon. The bad news: "We are at the horizon of a new epidemic, rather than at the peak," says Dr. James Curran, director of the AIDS task force at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Half the known cases of AIDS have been diagnosed in the past six months, and the number of new cases has been doubling every eight to twelve months. Says Curran: "We are no longer acting like a quick solution is just around the corner. This epidemic will be with...
...Haitians and hemophiliacs. Now there is good evidence that acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, has spread to a fifth group: children. In Atlanta last week the Centers for Disease Control reported 22 suspected cases of AIDS in children under five in New York, New Jersey and California. The CDC is cautious about confirming the diagnoses, but at least four cases seem well documented...
...other problems. Among the most pernicious of these is Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), which has a 60% fatality rate, and Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that has stricken nearly 40% of AIDS victims, killing at least one-fifth of them. In the 17 months that the CDC has been tracking the epidemic, a total of 827 cases of AIDS have been reported in 33 states; 312 have ended in death...
...from a cow that had been getting DES injections; in Italy it was linked to contaminated beef. But the cause is not always dietary, and symptoms often disappear within a year, whether or not diet is altered. "The list of conditions that can cause this is fairly lengthy," says CDC Epidemiologist José Cordero. In Poland, it was discovered in 1967 that parents working in birth-control pill factories were inadvertently exposing their children to estrogen powder clinging to their clothes. Elsewhere, insecticides, including DDT, have been associated with the disorder. So far, however, the CDC has failed to uncover...
...efforts to isolate an AIDS bug have come to nothing. The CDC has cultured specimens from lymph nodes, urine, feces and blood of AIDS victims and then inoculated them into specially bred marmosets, at a cost of $25,000 for testing on each animal. Unfortunately, as Curran points out, "it is not known whether there is a transmissible agent, whether the patients we're studying harbor it, which body secretion may contain it, and whether marmosets are an appropriate species...