United Press International; Friday, 20 November 1987.
CHICAGO - AIDS infections among pregnant women from inner cities have spiraled from a few isolated cases to a significant problem comparable to that found in parts of central Africa, a report said Thursday. A study at a New York hospital found that 2 percent of women giving birth in early 1987 were infected with HIV, t
United Press International; Friday, 16 October 1987.
WASHINGTON - Nearly half of American adults believe it is very likely that the AIDS virus will infect and kill a large share of the population, a survey released Thursday showed, leading one researcher to conclude that the country is in the grips of AIDS hysteria. Forty-eight percent of the 601 adults polled in July be
United Press International; Tuesday, 1 September 1987.
PENSACOLA - Elderly residents vowed Monday to fight a plan by a state agency to turn a vacant house into a group home for a half-dozen sexually active teen-agers with the AIDS virus. Tim LaPlant, owner of the west Pensacola house, said someone placed a sign on the front lawn saying Danger AIDS -- Keep Away, but a neigh
United Press International; Tuesday, 18 August 1987.
WASHINGTON - An experimental AIDS vaccine based on surface fragments of the AIDS virus has become the first to receive government approval for human testing, an important step in development of a compound to prevent the deadly disease, officials revealed Monday. The vaccine, developed by MicroGeneSys, a small West Have
United Press International; Tuesday, 21 July 1987.
Mark Schwed, United Press International
One hour before America crowns the sweetest teen queen in the land, CBS will offer the flip side of the beauty pageant fantasy -- a touching, fact-filled story about a good kid infected by the AIDS virus. This was not the way it was supposed to happen. An Enemy Among Us, airing tonight at 8 on Channels 4, 11 and 34, wa
United Press International; Friday, 20 March 1987.
ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control said Thursday that patients who received multiple blood transfusions as long ago as 1978 should be tested for infection by the virus that causes AIDS. The report was prompted by a study of long-term leukemia patients at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, wh
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