European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes August 1985 aids threat spurring military changes treatment costs Are declared a danger by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington the growing threat from acquired immune deficiency syndrome raises military including Cost of patient the ability to deploy transmission of the disease during Battlefield transfusions and purity of blood an army doctor told a Board of civilian consultants Edmund Tramont told the group army doctors believe there May be new cases of possible aids in the next 12 at a Cost of up to per person for Complete it has the potential to bankrupt the he by Tramont he was refer ring to positive results from blood tests for the antibody the body produces when exposed to the it Viii virus associated with aids and some other Only two cases in 10 probably would require the full hospitalization and treatment Tramont estimated could Cost he he said the army has budgeted million for the whole aids problem next fiscal to qualify As a the antibody must be isolated or its presence confirmed by the tougher Western blot not simply the test that is used As a first Tramont soldiers and family members infected by the aids virus Range from people who find themselves in a High risk category through those who have tested positive for the it Viii antibody to those with advanced infections due to a suppressed immune presence of the antibody Means Only that the blood has been exposed to the so scientists cannot say whether people with the antibody Ever had aids or will get doctors from each of the services said the increasing number of aids cases among military members and their families Means the disease no longer can be regarded As a concern mostly to promiscuous homosexual intravenous drug users or people who receive blood Transf earlier last an army medical spokesman said the service had diagnosed 27 cases of aids among soldiers and their families this chief of microbiology at Wal Ter Reed army Institute of made his report during a special session of the subcommittee on disease control of the armed forces epidemiological Board meeting at Walter Reed army medical in the Board was asked by the defense department to help decide How to confront the threat from the often fatal based on rates found by the Federal centers for disease Tramont Over the next 12 months the army expects about 250 cases to be identified by screening donations to its blood collection he said another 250 would be identified by screening military members donations to civilian blood he said about 200 More cases would involve soldiers or family members presenting themselves for care at an army medical facility and that another 300 cases would be found As a result of follow up interviews in which patients or family members identify others who had been exposed to a the cd rate Tramont quoted was 250 cases per blood samples a cd representative said after further less than half that number turned out actually to have been True doctors blamed Laboratory errors for the but Tramont said he believes his figures probably were he said the army identified 38 cases last month from blood screening in its blood collection pro Gram Tramont said the Board needed to Grap ple with the question of whether recruits and other soldiers should be vaccinated with live virus will this kill these patients he recruits currently Are vaccinated against polio and other he said the Board would have to consider what the Impact of weakened immune systems might be on soldiers in the restrictions to entering the service would have to be he the chief of staff needs Confidence that the people Hes training can Complete doctor urges aids information Campaign Washington service members can avoid getting aids and pass ing it and the military ought to Start an intensive Campaign to Tell them according to Mathilda Krim of the new York Cit based aids medical found an education program to Deal with the growing threat of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the military was urged by a succession of physicians but especially by she said it is important that an educational Campaign aim to take the stigma out of having people will not speak freely about their disease to their doctors and the others close to them who need to know they have been exposed to having the disease does not mean the victim is a Krim male service members should avoid sex with prostitutes because the women May be intravenous drug users who contracted the disease through use of hypodermic she men can limit their exposure even during sex by wearing women should avoid bisexual men and drug it is a Good time for everyone to reconsider casual she Krim also advised the physicians attend ing the subcommittee meeting of the armed services epidemiological Board that they should limit blood transfusions to situations where lives Are at terrorist from Page 1 pressing sympathy for the victims of the attack and the support of you should know that the overwhelm ing majority of our citizens support run Ger said in her which was published in Germany biggest daily new spa the it is Only a Small group of crazed Crimi nals that have set themselves the goal of driving a wedge Between West Germany and the United she the terrorist red army faction grew out of Radical student circles in the Early it has terrorized Germany with arson attacks and assassinations for More than a the groups members have been responsible for numerous attacks on and nato military installations across the but the Frankfurt car bomb attack marked the first time the red army fac Tion and direct action have claimed joint responsibility for a terrorist Accord ing to Hansjuerge a spokesman for the Karlsruhe based Federal prosecutors prosecutors and police have asked the Public for help i i tracking Down those responsible for the Frankfurt in a telex sent to news organizations late the Federal police noted that a childrens play ground and several stores were near the blast military authorities said the search for suspects was in the hands of German things Are being handled by the Ger Man police and the Federal criminal Rhei main spokesman George Sillia said in a Telephone interview the last major red army faction attack against a military base was the bombing of the air forces Headquarters at in southwestern West in eighteen people were Pope consecrates Ivory coast Cathedral Ivory coast Pope John Paul ii consecrated Africa largest Cathe dral saturday Little More than five years after laying its foundation i give thanks for this rare the Pope i give thanks for All that this impressive achievement represents for your which has just celebrated the 25th anniversary of its the Cathedral of Paul seats but can accommodate up to making it one of the largest churches not Only in Africa but in the the Trian Gular with its vast areas of Glass and is one of the most daring build Ings in the former capital of a thriving and modernistic City of million built on the shores of a the making his 27th foreign visit and his third to detoured to the Ivory coast on his Way from Togo to Cam where he was to spend the next three he blessed and Laid the foundation Stone of the Cathedral May during his first african builders have been work ing round the clock for several months to have the Cathedral ready for saturdays consecration about one in 10 of the Ivory coasts More than 9 million people is a roman but More than two thirds of the As in which the Pope visited retains loyalty to the old animist Cults that see spirits or demons in every natural object or be fore leaving his first port of the Pope warned against introducing animist and voodoo practices into the Church but he said it was acceptable to bring in worthy tribal Cus Toms and a he we dont let people with diabetes in at any the disease could have implications on the he in the blood Supply system would be under everyone in uniform would be a potential should everyone in uniform be tested he Jeff Levi of the National Gay task Force asked the Board not to recommend Blanket testing of military he said the test known As Elisa is approved by the food and drug administration Only As a blood test for the antibody not As a test for persons who have Levi said he feared the limited confidentiality of medical records in the Mili tary would permit results of the screenings to be used to discharge people As Homo sex army Manmohan an army preventive Medicine said the files Are used to screen people Only for sensitive jobs such As those involving chemical or nuclear they Are not available to line representatives said All the services Are following defense department guidelines that require them to notify individuals who test positive for the they said the notification is necessary so the donors can seek alter their life styles or obtain after protests from civilian agencies that collect blood on military the defense department 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