CORRECTION: The article incorrectly states the outcome of a blood transfusion received by an infant from an adult who was later diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The infant developed a severe immune deficiency but is still alive. ---------- The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported yest
CORRECTION: The article incorrectly states the outcome of a blood transfusion received by an infant from an adult who was later diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The infant developed a severe immune deficiency but is still alive. ---------- The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported yest
The persistence of a serious disease whose victims are primarily homosexual men has touched off anxiety among homosexuals in New York City, where nearly half of the nation s cases have been reported. Doctors treating homosexuals say they are being flooded with telephone calls from old and new patients with minor compla
Health officials in five states have reported a total of 34 cases, including 16 fatal ones, of a serious disorder of the immune system among Haitians who recently moved to this country. Ten of the patients were residents of Brooklyn, Federal health officials reported yesterday. The Haitian cases represent a new develop
Federal epidemiologists investigating a serious disorder of the body s immune system that has mostly afflicted male homosexuals reported new evidence yesterday suggesting that the outbreak is linked to an infectious agent. We think the findings are important but they don t solve the problem, Dr. Harold W. Jaffe, one of
A serious disorder of the immune system that has been known to doctors for less than a year - a disorder that appears to affect primarily male homosexuals - has now afflicted at least 335 people, of whom it has killed 136, officials of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said yesterday. Federal health officials