European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paged the stars and stripes May 1985 health science news study finds Little risk in exposure to aids even close Contact not Likely to spread deadly disease Washington a a study of hundreds of nurses and others exposed to or acquired immune deficiency at a Hospital shows even such close Contact is not Likely to spread the deadly a scientist said More David Henderson the study suggests since risks of spreading it seem so Small in an environment of close its hard to believe that the disease could be spread in a casual social Situa Tion or by simply sitting next to someone on a such fears of easy spread have popped up despite denials by medical experts As publicity has increased about the which destroys the body immune system and seems to be spread through sexual or other intimate Contact with bodily including of the clinical Center at the National institutes of told reporters his groups still in Progress after two has closely checked blood samples of 531 health workers with varying expo sure to aids patients or specimens at the included were 34 workers who reported such As being stuck with and 12 who reported mucosa splashes in which blood or body fluid from a patient came in Contact with their nose or of the three were found to have developed anti bodies to the a signal they could develop aids but the three All men whose blood showed exposure to aids at the time the study started also when that they were members of shown to be at extra risk of contracting the about three fourths of the nearly aids cases reported so far in the United states have been among sexually Active homosexual or bisexual according to government other High risk groups include intravenous drug users and Haemophiliacs who require blood none of the three men who showed positive reactions to the blood tests was among the workers who had re ported cuts or Contact with body Henderson All three Are still apparently and two Are still working at the he summing up the possibility of a health worker contracting aids from a Henderson said our study Doest say this  happen it says that the risk is the need for More information is Why the study needs to keep he besides reassuring health care Henderson said the study should also be applicable to people in such jobs As As the aids scare has grown during the past there have been reports of funeral Homes refusing to embalm aids victims and even of Rescue squads being advised not to give Mouth Mouth resuscitation to apparent aids cases have been and of the victims have according to the National Center for disease no one is known to have recovered from aids cases among Haemophiliacs May be declining Atlanta a the National Center for disease control says aids appears to be stabilizing or declining among the nations its encouraging All the Way said Bruce the curve has appeared to level or perhaps the cd reported thursday that 73 aids cases have been reported in Hemo Philia patients in the United states 45 of those were reported last and six have been reported so far this but the five Haemophilia related cases reported in the first three months of this year represented a drop from 10 such cases in the last three months of and 11 in the Quarter before people with Haemophilia a disease that can cause uncontrolled bleeding Are at increased risk for acquired immune deficiency the often fatal Dis ease can spread through blood or blood which Many Haemophiliacs must Evatt said the apparent decrease of aids among Haemophiliacs could be attributed to three factors voluntary screening of aids risk blood which began two years ago the wide spread use of heat treatment to kill aids virus in blood products and the disease simply running its course among the relatively Small Haemophilia we have the Means now to Stop the spread among Haemophilia Evatt noting that a new test to screen blood donors for aids virus before they donate should have a very Large Impact on the problem of aids in Haemophiliacs a year or two from were stopping the spread of the Dis ease among future he thirty eight of the 73 aids victims with Haemophilia have the cd said in its morbidity and mortality weekly re about three out of every four aids cases occur in homosexual or bisexual intravenous drug abusers also Are at increased risk for the which cripples the body ability to fight off ill Ness and aids cases have been reported or 49 per have legionnaires disease outbreak confirmed in London a health officials have launched a search for the source of Britain worst outbreak of legionnaires disease that doctors say has killed nine per sons and is suspected of killing another 19 in the county of Staffordshire in Central the latest victim died Friday night at Kings Mead hos the Hospital said in a statement it gave no other John Staffordshire District medical offi said saturday despite the latest the Over All chances of survival for 68 other Hospital patients believed to have the disease Are Good now that it has been positively identified and the right antibiotics can be and doctors initially thought the patients had influenza the initial symptoms of legionnaires disease Are but health officials said Friday that legionnaires Dis ease had been health officials say nine of the dead have now been identified As victims of the another 19 Are believed to have died from it and the 68 remaining Hospital patients Are believed to have a total of 110 people were admitted to Staffordshire hospitals in the past three weeks suffering from the ill Ness now thought to be legionnaires of that 28 have 14 have been discharged and 68 remain seven other cases originally linked to the outbreak have been legionnaires disease was diagnosed after an investigation by staff of the communicable diseases surveillance Center in previous outbreaks of the disease have had a definite focal but health officials said in this people have been become ill within a Large Pear shaped area of the county that includes the towns of Stone and Scully said this indicates there might be More than one source or that sufferers All travelled to the same place before catching he said patients were being asked where they had been before becoming to see if there was a common he said once the source or sources were it would be easy to destroy the bacteria with chlorine or household the bacteria thrive in moist Environ ments and previously have been transmitted through water systems and air conditioning Scully said confusion arose because the disease is initially hard to he said the first tests failed to come up with positive except in the Case of two patients who had influenza antibodies in their with no other doctors initially thought influenza was the disease usually strikes the Middle aged or and All but nine of those treated in Stafford were at least 50 years the symptoms Are initial aches and followed by a Rise in shivering coughing and shortness of there can also be abdominal pains the disease was first identified at a Pennsylvania american legion convention in Philadelphia in july a total of 221 legionnaires contracted the and 34 of them cause of toxic Shock syndrome remains elusive by the Cox news service Atlanta toxic Shock syndrome May be caused by As yet uni Denti bacterial a finding that May help explain Why cases of the Dis ease continue to mount among men As Well As researchers at the nation Al Center for disease control in Atlanta said in a study released their study also suggests that scientists still do not understand fully what role tampons play in the disease or How bacteria May cause toxic Shock syn of the nearly cases of toxic Shock reported to the cd since the Dis ease was discovered in about 80 percent have occurred in menstruating the disease was linked to the rely which has been withdrawn from the Market by its Procter a bacterial toxin or toxic Shock syndrome toxin1 discovered five years ago was widely regarded As a cause of the some scientists believed with the discovery of the toxin and the removal of rely from the the disease had been but More than 500 cases of toxic Shock have occurred in males and non menstruating apparently As a re sult of birth control measures or some still unidentified according to the and cd writing in the new Issue of the journal of the american medical say the role of tsst1 has not been in their the Atlanta research led by Paul examined strains of a bacteria known As staphylococcus which is believed to be the cause of toxic Shock in men and no menstruating women who were toxic Shock the scientists found that Only 20 of 32 strains of the bacteria produced in menstruating women who had the 41 of 44 strains found in the patients produced the the researchers also found that patients with no menstrual toxic Shock had a death rate from the disease five times higher than that of menstruating these results suggest that As yet toxins play a role in toxic Shock and that tsst1 May not be essential to cause the Dis said the important thing is that this should ring the Bell of physicians that toxic Shock syndrome May also occur in men and no menstruating he he said doctors should suspect toxic Shock syndrome in any patient who is in Shock not caused by trauma or some other obvious distributed by the