European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 2, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 health & science news risk of getting aids at Home termed Zero Minneapolis a the  or picking up aids from daily Contact in the Home apparently is non existent even when people share toothbrushes is ors Aid other personal items with Vic Tims of the lethal disease a new stud shows. Or. Martha f. Rogers of the rational centers for disease control mid the lat est work is one of eight Madia that reach essentially the same conclusion but acknowledged there arc no  our Best estimate of the risk of household transmission of aids is Zero Rogen Laid. This should be re assuring to the families and others who have casual Contact with aids  her study based on 101 aids family members was one of several reports on How the disease is spread hat were out lined at a meeting of the american society for microbiology. Among other aids related research presented i the conference or. Jay Epstein of the food and drug administration reported finding evidence of the aids virus or a close relative in blood samples taken from children in the upper Votta in 1963. This is the earliest evidence of the infection and was nearly two decades before the aids epidemic was recognized in the United slates. Or. Warren Johnson of the nation Al cancer Institute said aids appears to be common in Haiti among the female sexual partners of male aids Vic Tims and heterosexual transmission of the disease May be More frequent there than previously recognized. Or. David Rychtman of the Sci reporting on the Low risk to Hearth care workers who treat aids patients said a Singec aids aimed Needle Jab is unlikely to cause an infection. While it can and undoubtedly will occur in health care workers the rate of infective Ity will be very very Low he said. Or. Ann Hardy of the cd said the number of aids cases in the United states now officially 13,402 is Likely to double in the next 13 months. In the study of the household risk of catching acquired immune deficiency syndrome the doctors followed 68 Chil Dren and 33 adults who lived with 39 aids patients. They tested the family members for antibodies in their blood that indicate an aids infection. During an average followup of 32 months Only one person a 5-year-old girl showed sign of the disease. And the researchers believe she acquired the virus from her aids infected Mother before birth. Household members shared Many personal items and items Likely to be soiled with blood or body secretions said Rogera. Among these were toothbrushes razors Combs towels clothes eating utensils plates and drinking glasses. They also used the same Beds bathrooms washing machines and kitchens. Relatives also often look care of family members with aids and helped the with bathing dressing and eating and frequently bugged or kissed them. Yet none of the relatives became infected with the aids virus through this close daily Contact. Experts believe that aids is passed Only through sexual Contact tainted Needles or other exposure that would introduce a victim s secretions into the bloodstream. Rogers said the latest study supports claims that children with aids can at tend school without a risk of passing the disease on to their classmates. However she said she expects that Many people win ibid be leery of having any Contact who aids victims. I m not lure what it will take to con Vince people she said. Some seem to want guarantees that there will never be transmission in schools. 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A followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesha Sang and danced around a Bon fire monday night As they burned about 5,000 copies of the Book of Rajnee Shim and the Robes of the guru s former Secretary. The books and the flowing red Robu of a Anand Sheela who abruptly left the commune about two weeks ago were heaped onto four wooden pallets covered with Flowers and Juniper branches. The ceremony in the Community s crematorium was part of Rajneesha s announced intention to repudiate ideas and projects that he say were conceived by Sheela who left with about a dozen other top officials. Rajneesha. 53, has accused Sheela and her gang of a myriad of crimes ranging from attempted murder to arson. Disciples in the cult say they have dismantled an elaborate electronic eavesdropping network that included bugs in the guru s  on Abc s nightlife monday night Raj Nemesh said be was not aware of Sheela s activities. I was not informed and i was in isolation he said. He said the changes in the religion mean there is no religion and there is no master no disciples. I am Only a Friend and those who love me arc living with  asked if he thought the group would lose its tax exempt status As a religion. Rajneesha said "1 Don t  Bui when pressed further he said we Are not a religion but our activities Are  monday s tire Rajnesh s new Sec Reury. A prom Hasya proclaimed Rajnee Shim dead then used a Torch to Light Juniper  into the holy fire step into the holy flame about 2,000 disciples Sang clapping their hands to music by a for the first time in the history of Mankind a religion has died the guru said in a news conference after the Book burning. He called Rajnee Shim a religion that a gang of fascists managed to create and said it was necessary that it be  Rajneesha said Sheela was responsible for the Book of  that was not my Book. I be never read it he said. I am a human being. I am not a Savior. 1 am not a Propof. Nobody has Ever been a  in the 78-Page Book the guru defines Rajnee Shim As a religion less  the Book describes the beliefs and religion in practices of the sect. Sheela who reportedly is travelling in Europe has de Nied any wrongdoing while she was with the cull which first became known for advocating free love gambling and Rolls royces. Federal stale and local officials have set up a command Post in the commune of about 2,000 residents to investigate the allegations. Investigators monday began serving about 70 subpoenas in the Community. Some 40 subpoena were issued to summon appearances before a routine grand jury that will not specifically look into Rajneesha matters said Wasco county District attorney Bernard l. Smith. About 30 subpoenas were issued for a Federal grand jury said Robert Weaver of the . Attorney s office in Portland. He declined further comment. At a news conference monday a criminal lawyer recently hired by Rajneesha i followers said he hoped to re Duce the tension Between his clients and the Law enforce ment team. Nobody wants a confrontation said Bob Mccrea of Eugene. The Book rant schism was published by Sheela. Adherents Luve t to mowed to swear on it instead of the Bible when testifying in court. The guru said Tail week that Rajnee Shim and Raunec thees no longer exist and that anything bearing the name Rajnee Shim would be dismantled. Over the weekend his followers stripped Rajnee Shim posters and signs from the Walls of hotel rooms and other buildings. Rajneesha also told disciples they no longer Are required to Wear necklaces bearing his photograph or he red hued clothing that distinguished his followers. The disciples have retained their sanskrit names however. The guru said he became aware of Sheela s activities Only recently when he emerged from a 3tt-year period of silence. The sect which claims about 500,000 followers world wide moved its Headquarters Here in 1981 from Poona. India leaving behind a morass of tax and Legal disputes. The group spent More than $100 million to turn 64,000 acres of overgrazed Oregon ranch land into a thriving farm and to build a City that includes a shopping mall hotel and Airport. But Legal problems have continued to haunt the sect. The Federal immigration and naturalization service is investigating the guru whose application for permanent residency still is pending a Well As 23 couples in the sect who investigators suspect married solely for immigration purposes. Oregon attorney general Dave Frohnmayer contends in a lawsuit that  s incorporation As a City violates constitutional provisions of Church and state Sepa ration while a land use watchdog group maintains in an other lawsuit that the City was built illegally on land zoned for agriculture. Rajnesh s followers retaliated by filing a lawsuit accusing various Hale and county officials of conspiring to drive them out of Oregon. They also have sued the Federal government seeking the release of documents about the sect. Rajneesha said he will try to make amends with authorities by dropping some of the litigation and changing he name of the City of Rajneesha Back to Antelope which it was called before Rajneesha s followers Loo control of its government