1995
- Ray of Hope for HIV Vaccine
- Newsday - June 20, 1995
- Laurie Garrett - Staff Writer
- WOMEN INFECTED with the milder West African AIDS virus known as HIV-2 seemed to be protected against infection later on by the far more virulent and common human immunodeficiency virus common to North America, a study has found. Based on a decade-long study of 756 licensed female prostitutes in Dakar,
- Combating AIDS With Mutant HIV
- Newsday - February 4, 1995
- Laurie Garrett. Staff Correspondent
- Washington - Three people have been injected with mutant HIV genes in an attempt to slow down the virus growth in their bodies. Early results of the first genetic engineering experiment on HIV-positive human beings were presented last week by the University of Michigan s Dr. Gary Nabel, at the second National Conferenc
- Heterosexual Spread: In NYC, it is a growing factor in HIV cases
- Newsday - February 1, 1995
- Laurie Garrett. Staff Correspondent
- Washington - New York City s AIDS epidemic is becoming increasingly heterosexual, and in at least one part of the metropolis - the South Bronx - heterosexual transmission is the leading way the virus is now being spread. A 1992-94 study of more than 1,000 people admitted to the emergency room or inpatient service of Br
- New View of How HIV Works
- Newsday - January 12, 1995
- Laurie Garrett. Staff Writer
- Two billion viruses and a million opposing immune system cells are produced each day in the bodies of people infected with the AIDS virus, killing each other quickly as replacements rush in - a struggle that goes on for years. Eventually, the virus, having exhausted its opponent, wins, and the result is AIDS. This new
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