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Associated Press - May 6, 1983
The study reported on eight children with a disease closely resembling acquired immune deficiency syndrome and that some cases might be AIDS.
However, public health officials have been cautious in their acceptance of the reported sicknesses as being true cases of AIDS, a disease that attacks the body's immune system.
The researchers said the children may have acquired the disease from family members, but the study did not disclose whether any of the adults had confirmed cases of AIDS.
Researchers believe sexual contact and blood transfusions can spread the ailment. But if "nonsexual, non-blood-borne transmission is possible, the scope of the syndrome may be enormous," writes Dr. Fauci of the National Institutes of Health in an editorial to be published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study of the Newark children was done by a team of researchers from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, St. Michael's Medical Center in Newark, the New Jersey Department of Health and St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, N.J.
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