AEGiS-UPI: Sencer Testifies Adults Are Main AIDS Threat

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Sencer Testifies Adults Are Main AIDS Threat

United Press International - October 9, 1985

The city's Health Commissioner said yesterday that AIDS was more likely to be spread by the more than 400,000 adults who carry the virus in the city than by a 7-year-old girl afflicted with the disease.

The Commissioner, Dr. David J. Sencer, testified in State Supreme Court that "one out of every 15" city dwellers had the virus. Doctors have said that not all people who carry the virus that causes AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, become afflicted with the disease, which is usually lethal.

Dr. Sencer was testifying in the fifth week of hearings of a lawsuit by two Queens school boards to have a 7-year-old second grader who was born with AIDS removed from public school.

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