European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday june 19, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 the aids crisis2nd aids patient better after blood treatment Atlanta up a the second aids patient to undergo an experimental blood heating treatment a continued to improve sunday but a government health official criticized the doctors for publicizing an unproven procedure and dismissed claims it is a possible cure As a extraordinarily see related photos stories in the daily Magazine. Tony Mascio 38, thursday became the second patient in four months with acquired immune deficiency syndrome to undergo the treatment that involves heating the body to 108 degrees fahrenheit for two hours by passing the blood through a heating apparatus similar to a dialysis machine. The theory behind the procedure is that it heats the body beyond a temperature it can naturally attain in order to kill the virus a in the same Way fever fights disease. Mascio who came to the doctors with a depressed White blood cell count and aids related Kaposi a Sarcoma lesions on internal organs has shown a steady White cell increase and tumor shrinkage since the operation his doctors said. On sunday the count of Mascio a disease fighting White blood cells was up to 7,000, Well within the Normal Range said Patrick Shipley an intensive care unit nurse at Atlanta Hospital. A was of 9 , Tony continued to improve in his present condition a a statement issued by head nurse Audrey Yandel said. A the is rested More Alert and increasing his activity level and is More metabolically the statement said doctors planned to move Mascio from the intensive care unit to a private room by monday morning. In an interview on american television abcs a this week with David Brinkley program Anthony Fauci director of the National Institute of allergies and infectious diseases questioned claims that the method is a potential aids cure. A i Haven to had the Opportunity to examine the data but i can Tell you from my experience with this virus that it is extraordinarily unlikely that that a the Case a Fauci said. A in fact we have some experiments to show that when you heat virus infected cells you can actually induce the production of a virus. He added. A i think making a big splash. Is going to give false Hope to a lot of or. Kenneth Alonso and William Logan performed the hyperthermia procedure at the Small hos Pital in downtown Atlanta that is currently under threat of being closed for violations unrelated to the aids treatment. The doctors have remained cautious in their assessment of the procedure As a successful aids treatment and Are restricting their conclusions to observations made on the two patients they have treated. A Only time will Tell a Alonso said about the procedure previously used Only As an experimental cancer treatment. A it appears to have had beneficial effects on the virus in one the condition of the first patient to undergo the blood heating treatment Carl Crawford has reportedly improved steadily since he underwent the operation feb. 20 after coming to the doctors with full blown aids symptoms. Crawford and the doctors say his aids related Kaposi a Sarcoma cancers have virtually disappeared from his body and no sign of the virus has been detectable in his blood. The operation took place a Day after Georgia health officials said they plan to revoke the hospitals License because of numerous violations including several patient deaths. Hospital administrators who claim the action by the state is being motivated by the unorthodox aids treatment Are appealing the decision. Official forecasts vaccine Washington apr a vaccine to combat the aids virus Likely will be available for widespread use by the end of the decade a government aids expert said sunday. The Bush administration has come under fire from aids activists and congressional critics for not spending enough Money on aids research and moving too slowly in approving new drugs to fight the disease. The Federal government is spending $ 1.16 billion in the current fiscal year on aids research and the administration has recommended an increase to $ 1.245 billion in fiscal 1991. But or. Anthony Fauci an aids research specialist said sunday that a the decade of the �?T90s will see some important advances that will have a positive Impact on his infected a Over the next several years you la see a real acceleration of vaccine development and hopefully by the end of the 1990s there will be a vaccine that is available for widespread use a Fauci said. An estimated 1 million americans Are believed to be infected by his or human immunodeficiency virus which can develop into the aids disease. The process Fay which the aids virus and destroys ways to interfere with this process 1. The aids virus binds to the outside of a cell and fuses with it. The protein coat of the Sims is attracted Tot 4 receptor molecules found on some types of human cells 2. Once fused the Sims injects its genetic material rna into the Host cell. The protein coat surrounding the Sims is removed in this step. 3. The unc Oating process activates the i mss reproductive mechanisms. Once activated three key processes occur replication through a process known As Quot reverse transcription Quot the genetic information rna within the virus is duplicated Adna. Integration the Dan integrates into the Dan in the nucleus of the Host cell. Using the Host cell s own mechanisms. Viral rna is reproduced. Translation the proteins and enzymes needed to create Coats for the new viruses Are produced. 4. The new protein Coats Are assembled around the newly produced rna creating Complete new viruses. 5. New viruses Quot Bud Quot off from the cell. They May do this slowly leaving the Host cell intact or with violent Speed causing the Host cell to rupture. Sources nomm Banrow Atman oct 88time Vandort Tutt univ Amity activist Colls for riots of aids meet new York of a a prominent aids activist is calling for riots at this weeks sixth International aids conference and while most demonstrators wont go that far Many have promised to disrupt the meeting with protests inside and outside the convention Hall. The Call for riots came from Larry Kramer one of the founders of the aids coalition to unleash Power or act up. It is the most militant aids organization. And Kramer May be its most militant member. In articles published in Gay newspapers around the country Kramer wrote a every human being who wants to end the aids epidemic must be in san Francisco. Screaming Yelling furiously angry protesting at this stupid conference. We must riot a san Francisco police say they expect demonstrations at the convention but no violence. A outside of or. Kramer we done to know of anybody talking riot or violence a said sgt. Jerome Senkir. A a we re hoping for a peaceful conference. I think at this Point that a going to some 12,000 scientists and 1,800 members of the news Media Are registered to attend. In a letter to activists who opposed his Call to riot Kramer wrote a you Are free not to riot and you Are free to criticize my Call to riot. A and we Are All free to Khan info graphics Leigh Melton Singleton French debate reopening of banned brothels Paris not a should brothels be reopened to help prevent the spread of aids by prostitutes from place Pialle to ministers palaces France is strenuously debating that question after a former health minister said the spread of aids in France was so frightening that the government needed to reopen brothels and establish sanitary controls for prostitutes. Around place Pialle a thriving District of dark bars and Neon lighted sex shops Many of the prostitutes were outraged by the Call to re establish bordello. France outlawed brothels in 1946 in response to Public outrage that the proprietors kept prostitutes in conditions approaching slavery. A France is supposed to be the land of Liberty a said a prostitute who gave her name As Brigitte. A i can to believe that someone would want to Force us Back into brothels a she said standing in a door on Rue Pialle on a Chilly and Gray june Day wearing Only Black shorts and a leather jacket. On nearby Rue Prochot a 37-year-old prostitute who called herself Camille said a with the year 2000 approaching it does no to seem right that they want to take such a big step backward on women a some people were surprised that the proposal to legalize brothels came from a woman or. Michele Barzach who was minister of health from 1984 to 1986 under prime minister Jacques Chirac. A the current situation is unacceptable and frightening a she said in an interview in be Monde. She was commenting on the 62,000 aids cases in France More than in any other country in Europe. Barzach a gynaecologist said prostitutes in the brothels should undergo regular tests for infectious diseases As was required in France 30 years ago. A a let a Stop the hypocrisy a she said discussing what she views As the Public a Raissez Faire attitude toward Street walking. A a let a recognize the
