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...Americans have contracted AIDS, says Dr. James Curran, director of the AIDS task force at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, and he adds, "It'll get worse." CDC officials expect the number to double by this time next year. The epidemic is spreading worldwide. W.H.O. officials report that Paris has almost the same incidence as Los Angeles. The vast majority of AIDS cases--about 73% in the U.S.--have occurred in homosexual or bisexual men. Researchers think that the virus can remain latent for years before causing symptoms, so that people infected five or more years ago may still...
...most Americans, whose lives have not been touched by the epidemic, the announcement brought home for the first time the grim reality that AIDS is spreading unabated, inevitably striking the famous and the familiar. As of July 22, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta had recorded 11,871 U.S. cases, including 5,917 deaths. Most alarming, the total number of cases continues to double every ten months. So far, 73% of those stricken by the disease have been homosexual or bisexual men, 17% intravenous drug users and 1% hemophiliacs. But the rest of the victims are people from...
...other drugs to battle against each successive infection, but overall the war is slowly lost as each illness takes its toll and the immune system continues to deteriorate. "We know of no patient who has regained the total strength of his depleted immune system," says Charles Fallis of the CDC. "We've observed that AIDS is almost always fatal...
...think it isn’t particularly attractive but there are neighborhood uses that people use,” says Robert Van Meter, the executive director of the Allston Brighton CDC. “Maintaining the overall neighborhood character is more important than creating a town center feel...
...Allston Brighton CDC sent a letter to the City of Boston questioning whether the scale of Harvard’s expansion in Allston...