European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. June 14. T986 the stars and stripes aids death toll health service says disease May kill 179,000 by 1991 Washington api the government a Clasine an update of its plan for controlling the spread of aids. Thursday predicted Ihal Marc than 270,000 people will have been diagnosed with the deadly disease by iw1 and More than 179,000 will have died. Deaths from aids in 1991 alone arc predicted Ai Mure Ihan 5j.ooo. According to projections being a Csc cd by the Public health service. By comparison -16,200 people died in ruin tick ideals in i9kj, according to the National safety Council. The health Agency said the figures Are based on projections by inc centers for disease control. It Suid the death estimate could be As much As 21 percent Low because of undone port ing of aids cases the report said More than 70 percent of aids cases will be diagnosed among homosexual or bisexual men considered the highest risk group. Aboul 25 percent of inc cases will be among drug addicts who use infected Needles. Those two figures overlap the Agency noted. Abii 9 percent of the cases will occur among Hetero sexual men ind women i figure estimated Ai nearly 7.0do cases the Agency said. And Mure than 3.000 cases will be diagnosed in infants and children he health service said due to the incr card infection among we Man of childbearing age aids also will spread dramatically oils inc the new York and san Francisco areas where it now is concentrated inc Agency said. Those two cities now account fur More than 40 percent of All aids discs. But by 1991, More than to percent of inc cases will come from other states and localities. The projections arc included in the health Agency s up Date of its master plan id control the spread of aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Despite the numbers in the projection the Agency said it stood by the goals it Sei last year to reduce inc spread of infection by 19b7 to slow the increase in aids cases by 1990 and to eliminate the spread of the disease by he year 2000. Aids kills by do Siriying the body s immune system leaving it defenceless against a Host of other diseases. More than 21.500 cases have been diagnosed since the first Case was re com cd five years ago this month. Inc Agency said. In the past five years More  her pits for some of the opportunistic infections that accompany aids have been found,1 tic Agency noted but no Eure for aids is yet  the statistical portion of the report notes that Blacks and hispanic account for 39 percent of the cases recorded thus far. About 1,400 cases have been diagnosed in women he Agency said and half of those say hey have not used intravenous drugs. There also have been 304 cases of aids recorded in children under the age of 13. Between 2 percent and 3 percent of aids cases occur among transfusion recipients or Haemophiliacs who received clotting Factor derived from donated blood. However the health Agency said it expects that number to decrease steadily because blood donations now arc screened for the aids virus and cloning agents Are treated with chemical and heat to disable the virus. Squawking Bird spurs complaint of harassment Seattle