European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 14, 1908 the stars and stripes Page 9 he just said nay and hit the Hay a photo even Kallal riders of Olden Dud Leci body and Ihu nay Kerning the risks of aids after a decade of follow up of his infected persons the involvement of the Central Ner Vous system the difficulties to produce an efficient vac Cine the Idee Tecu of new anti viral agents and the continued rap id spread of his Over the  or. Jonathan Mann head of the aids program at the world health organization said an estimated 150.000 people around the world will develop aids this ear this is double the total number of aids cases reported since the epidemic began. Aids is changing the world he said. It has be come a key part of the history1 of our  or. Robert Gallo of the . National cancer Institute who co discovered his reported evidence that a herpes virus found several years ago attacks the same immune system cells As the aids virus and May con tribute to the development of aids. He said the virus known As human herpes virus 6 or human a cell Lymph Tropic virus appears to team up with the aids virus to weaken the body s immune defences. In his study pizza tested at on 21 aids infected children who ranged in age from 14 months to 12 years. About iwo turds got the virus from blood prod upts the rest were infected by their mothers before  Uto said 62 percent of the patients had suffered Clear neurological damage from the virus and in every Case they were improved after taking at. Pizzo said the youngsters continued to improve nine months after the treatment started. The drug restored their speech ability to walk and responsiveness to other people. He Cau toned hat further study will be necessary to learn How Long the improvement lasts and whether the children deteriorate again. In a separate study. Or. Catherine Wilfert of dust University medical Center in Durham n.c., de scribed a preliminary three month study of the drug s safely in children. She said the work shows that youngsters tolerate the treatment Well and while it s too soon to draw firm conclusions our feeling is that the number of opportunistic infections is substantially  research by or. Maxime Seligmann of Hospital Saint Louis in Paris suggests that combining at with the herpes drug acyclovir significantly improves its effectiveness in people with aids. In four months of testing on 130 patients there were 25 deaths among patients who got at alone com pared with 11 among people who got both drugs. These preliminary data suggest that acyclovir May have additional Benefit without additional toxicity in patients with full blown aids Seligmann said