European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday. June 15, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 9 aids meeting told of super spreader Stockholm. Sweden a California Man doctors Call the super spreader has inf cold Al least fou women with aids and is is ill having sex Ual encounters according to a report re leased has infected four Oul of five of his partners that we have seen but we Don know All of his partners said or. Nancy Padian of the University of California at other research presented at an aids conference tuesday or. William Hascol Tinhof the Dana Farber cancer Institute in Boston described the discovery of a Gene inthe aids virus that seems to slow the Sims inside the body Padian said the super spreader Haemophilia a infected through contaminated blood products is in his 20s,lives in Southern California and is still healthy with no signs of acquired immune deficiency outlined the outbreak attributed to this Man us part of a study of infection Rales among women who engage in risky is now using condoms she said we asked him 10 Tell women about his aids infection but we can t guarantee he is doing and has Tine described their findings at the fourth International con Ference on said the new Gene dubbed Upu has been isolated by his Laboratory and two other research virus without this Gene grows faster he said he Gene is one of four in the Complex aids virus that regulate the Speed Wilh which it makes new copies of itself inside infected we have two genes that Speed inc virus up and two that slow it Down has Olinc believe it May be possible to shul Down the aids virus with drug that could manipulate the microbe s built in control research activities described at the meeting monday or. Anthony Adams of the . Centers for disease control said that by. Tween 20 and 25 health care workers around the world have become infected with aids As a result of on the Job expo sure to the Are now almost a decade since the transmission of the Sims became reasonably common he said. We arc still looking at a very Small number of people who go infected in the health care set or Samuel Broder of the . National cancer Institute said that the experimental Ami ads drug cd4 still looks very promising despite concern that it May not protect against the spread of aids to the brain or. Jay Levy of the University of California Ai san Francisco said it a Chuc sustello remembering those who died apply to Clef e Jones of san Francisco poses Al the aids conference in Stockholm Wilh a giant Quill naming american victims of he deadly bwe. Jones sewed the first Section after the death of his Best Friend and was soon joined by hundreds others. Pears that some of the body s own anti bodies actually help the aids virus get into blood cells. He said vaccine developers should be careful not to accidentally Aid the virus by prompting the body tomake antibodies that the microbe needs researchers from three countries presented six cases in which babies caught the aids virus while breast feed ing. They said the risk appears to be especially High if the Mother becomes infected with the virus after she gives birth or. James Goedert of the National cancer Institute said the approximately 1 million americans already carrying in virus Are growing More infectious so they Ore More a Katy to spread the disease to Ninf cycled people or. Timothy Dondro reported the first results of the cd s efforts to learn How Many americans Are infected Wil the aids virus by testing blood from Hospital patients. In testing in six Hospi tals three of every 1,000 people were infected but the rate docs not appear to be increasing. Or. A Osengo n Galy of the Zaire department of Public health said the infection rate also seems to have stabilised in Kinshasa the nation s capital. It has remained at about 7 percent among pregnant women since 1985. Or. Hiroaki Mitsuya of the National cancer Institute said that Dextran sul Fate a drug used 10 lower cholesterol May Block aids infection. In the California study Padian said the super spreader was somehow More infectious than must carriers of the virus perhaps because he was infected Wilh a More contagious variety of the aids virus. Or. George Cague 111 of Boston s department of health and hospitals said it s very feasible that this phenomenon might occur. Some strains of the virus might be More readily Padian said one of the infected women had sex with the Man 704 limes one 300 limes and one 15 limes. The fourth did not know How Many contacts she d had. She said her research on bother women shows a tremendous variation in Vulner ability 10 infection from person to per son. Seven women studied got the virus after fewer than 100 sexual encounters with infected men while 19 others remained free of the virus after More than 1,000 exposures. Aids brochure getting Good response Koop says Chicago a a government brochure sent to More than i do million households explaining in Frank language How the Al is virus can be spread is getting a Good response. Surgeon general c. Everett Koop said monday. The Federal government mailing this Spring was de signed to reach every household in the country As part Ofa Campaign to Leach people How to avoid the risks of catching the fatal disease. "1 think that a number of people who planned to be shocked who planned 10 criticize. Have been sur prised that it is a Good piece of education Koop said at a news conference before he delivered a commence ment address to graduates of the University of health sciences Chicago medical school in suburban North Chicago. Most pleasing arc reports of family discussions of the brochure Koop said. People have heeded my request he said. They have taken the family together and presented this to them As a problem that they All should understand he also said there have been a tremendous num Ber of Calls to a hot line asking for the brochure in Spanish. Koop said no Good Way could be found to determine which households in the country would need the Spanish language version when the brochure was mailed. Koop also cautioned against overreacting to what May seem to be new and frightening findings to be presented at the fourth International conference on aids which opened sunday in Stockholm. Sweden. Don t be misled that something has just happened in the last week and now we re in real trouble he said. Or. Lars Olof railings a conference chairman characterized some of the information in the papers As Koop said aids continues 10 present a unique prob Lem for people in the United Stales a country used to seeing diseases conquered by science. I Don l see a vaccine thai is both effective and readily available As Well As Safe in this Century Koop said. But he said that before the year 2000, scientists May develop & better agent to hold the aids virus in Check postponing possibly indefinitely deaths from the disease. Koop said teen agers Are among the toughest Peop Lelo warn about aids because it icy Are by nature risk he said thai because aids symptoms often do no show up for years after inf Calion teen agers May feel no fear because they do not see their friends dying from the disease. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome destroys the body s defences against disease leaving a person prey 10 life threatening infections and certain cancers. It is spread most often through sexual Contact Needles or syringes shared by infected drug abusers infected blood or blood products and from pregnant women to their offspring. Aids has struck More than 64,000 people in the United states country since 1979 and killed More than 36,000 of them according to the National centers for disease control
