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AZTAZTwide spread diseasesin the modern era. The disease was first found in 1981 as doctors around theUnited States began to report groups of young, homosexual men developing a rarepneumonia caused by an organism called Penumocystis carini. These patients thenwent on to develop many other new and rare complications that had previouslybeen seen only in patients…

The AIDS CrisisAIDS is an epidemic that has been treated like every other plague in history. Because it is human nature to be afraid of what one cannot control, people are invariably afraid of disease and infection. Moreover, the fear is escalated many times over in that the disease starts controlling the person who it…

As recently as 1990, there were some regions of the world that had remained relatively unscathed by AIDS. Today, however, there is not a single country around the world which has wholly escaped the AIDS epidemic. As the epidemic has matured, some of the developed nations which were hard hit by the epidemic in the…

——————-Is the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS toprevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue tostop many from taking adequate precautions. We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselvesfrom it without resorting to such extremes as mandatory testing, enforcedquarantine or total celibacy. But too few…

AidsUS MonsterIn an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of “TopSecret”, Prof J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is aman-made disease, originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at FortDetrick, Maryland. “Top Secret” is the international edition of theGerman magazine Geheim and is considered by many to be a sister…

AIDSAIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present asenten,ce of slow but inevitable death. I’ve already lost one friend to AIDS. Imay soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of many of my friends hasbeen profoundly altered by it. In my part of the country, one…

AIDSAdults (over the age of 18) from the company and other people who I know wererandomly assigned to receive the survey. The group includes married males andfemales as well as single male and females. There are 19 female and 31 malesubjects. A survey consisting of twenty statements concerning sexuallytransmitted disease and HIV infection. The survey…

AIDSGonzales 1 The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first discovered in 1981 as a unique and newly recognized infection of the body’s immune system (Mellors 3). The name AIDS was formally know as GRIDS (Gay Related Immune Defiance Syndrome). The first case of AIDS was discovered in Los Angeles, where scientists from the CDC…

AidsAIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromeHIV and Aids affect more than roughly thirty million people worldwide. Race, sex and age have nothing to do with who can get this disease, however, the race with the highest number of infected people happens to be Caucasian males ages 25-44. About forty-five percent of the 641,000 AIDS cases in…

IntroductionIn 1982, Robert Gallo from the National Cancer Institute in the USA, put forward the hypothesis that the cause of AIDS is a retrovirus. One year later, Myron Essex and his colleagues (1) found that AIDS patients had antibodies to the Human T-cell Leukemia virus Type-1 (HTLV-I), a virus discovered by Gallo a few years…