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Associated Press - December 4, 1985
The measure was designed to combat AIDS, which cripples the body's immune system.
Health professionals say it is spread by contact with virus-contaminated semen or blood.
Homosexuals were divided today on the new restrictions, with one homosexual-rights activist calling the monitoring of bathhouses "sex police."
"My concern about the sex police is that it represents a force that's bound to lead to some harm," the activist, Morris Kight said today. "Who would this person be? Would it be a doctor, a nurse, a nurse practicioner, an epidemiologist, a health educator, a moralist, a puritan or what?"
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