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United Press International; Friday, 16 October 1987.
Forty-eight percent of the 601 adults polled in July believed it was "very likely" and 32 percent believed it was possible that the virus, HIV, will infect and kill a large share, though the survey did not define what that share was.
Dr. James Sammons, executive vice president of the American Medical Association, said AIDS is a major problem, but people who expect a large proportion of the population to contract it do not understand current knowledge about the virus.
"I think there is a lot of hysteria based on bad information," he said.
Scientists have predicted that there will be at least 271,000 AIDS victims in the United States by 1991, about one one-thousandth of the current population.
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